Plants of USA and Canada

Scientific or common name:

Juniperus communis L.


CUPRESSACEAE Family selection - Cypress family (Gymnosperms - Conifers)

Taxon Page:

Name: Juniperus communis L. Taxon selection
Nomencl. ref.: Sp. Pl.: 1040 (1753)
Rank: species

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Common names

US name U.S. name: Common juniper
en English name: common juniper
English name: dwarf juniper
Spanish name: enebro
French name: genièvre commun
Italian name: Ginepro comune
German name: Zwergwacholder

Grown habit: Tree, Shrub
Duration: Perennial
 

Synonyms:


Subspecies / Varieties:
1) Juniperus communis L. ssp. alpina (Sm.) Celak.
2) Juniperus communis L. ssp. depressa (Pursh) Franco
3) Juniperus communis L. ssp. nana (Willd.) Syme
4) Juniperus communis L. ssp. saxatilis (Pall.) E. Murray
5) Juniperus communis L. var. alpina Sm.
6) Juniperus communis L. var. communis L. [excluded]
7) Juniperus communis L. var. depressa Pursh
8) Juniperus communis L. var. jackii Rehder
9) Juniperus communis L. var. megistocarpa Fernald & H. St. John
10) Juniperus communis L. var. montana Aiton
11) Juniperus communis L. var. saxatilis Pall.



TAXONOMY

Kingdom: Plantae
Subkingdom: Tracheobionta
Superdivision: Spermatophyta
Division: Coniferophyta
Class: Pinopsida
Subclass: -
Order: Pinales
Family: Cupressaceae
Genus: Juniperus
Species:


Page counter: 2161 ( AVG: 221.45 / 290.228 )



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C. Hoffmann - Botanischer Bilder-Atlas (1884) - This image is in the public domain because its copyright has expired.

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Walter Hood Fitch - Illustrations of the British Flora (1924) - Permission granted to use under GFDL by Kurt Stueber. Source: www.biolib.de - Permission is granted to copy, distribute and/or modify this image under the terms of the GNU Free Documentation License, Version 1.3 or any later version published by the Free Software Foundation; with no Invariant Sections, no Front-Cover Texts, and no Back-Cover Texts. A copy of the license is included in the section entitled "GNU Free Documentation License".

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Picture modified from Graebner, Paul - Taschenbuch zum Pflanzenbestimmen (1918) - Permission granted to use under GFDL by Kurt Stueber. Source: www.biolib.de - Permission is granted to copy, distribute and/or modify this image under the terms of the GNU Free Documentation License, Version 1.3 or any later version published by the Free Software Foundation; with no Invariant Sections, no Front-Cover Texts, and no Back-Cover Texts. A copy of the license is included in the section entitled GNU Free Documentation License.

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USDA-NRCS PLANTS Database / Britton, N.L., and A. Brown. 1913. An illustrated flora of the northern United States, Canada and the British Possessions. Vol. 1: 66.

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Dipartimento di Scienze della Vita, Università di Trieste - Progetto Dryades - Picture by Andrea Moro - Comune di Trieste, località Basovizza, ai piedi del Monte Cocusso, presso il confine di Stato., TS, FVG, Italia, - Image licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution Non Commercial Share-Alike 3.0 License

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Dipartimento di Scienze della Vita, Università di Trieste - Progetto Dryades - Picture by Andrea Moro - Comune di Trieste, località Basovizza., TS, Friuli - Venezia Giulia, Italia, - Image licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution Non Commercial Share-Alike 3.0 License

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Dipartimento di Scienze della Vita, Università di Trieste - Progetto Dryades - Picture by Andrea Moro - Comune di Trieste, località Basovizza, ai piedi del Monte Cocusso, presso il confine di Stato., TS, FVG, Italia, - Image licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution Non Commercial Share-Alike 3.0 License

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Picture modified from Thomé, Otto Wilhelm - Lehrbuch der Botanik fur Gymnasien, Realschulen, forst- und landwirthschaftliche Lehranstalten, pharmaceutische Institute etc. sowie zum Selbstunterrichte. 2. Auflage. (1872) - Permission granted to use under GFDL by Kurt Stueber. Source: www.biolib.de - Permission is granted to copy, distribute and/or modify this image under the terms of the GNU Free Documentation License, Version 1.3 or any later version published by the Free Software Foundation; with no Invariant Sections, no Front-Cover Texts, and no Back-Cover Texts. A copy of the license is included in the section entitled GNU Free Documentation License.

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Distribution in USA and Canada (*)
USA (AK, AL, AZ, CA, CO, CT, DE, GA, IA, ID, IL, IN, KY, MA, MD, ME, MI, MN, MT, NC, ND, NE, NH, NJ, NM, NV, NY, OH, OR, PA, RI, SC, SD, UT, VA, VT, WA, WI, WV, WY), CAN (AB, BC, LB, MB, NB, NF, NS, NT, NU, ON, PE, QC, SK, YT), DEN (GL), FRA (SPM)

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Map for Juniperus communis L.
(*) USDA, NRCS. 2009. The PLANTS Database (http://plants.usda.gov, 28 August 2009). National Plant Data Center, Baton Rouge, LA 70874-4490 USA



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More species:
1) Juniperus communis L. ssp. alpina (Sm.) Celak. [270]
2) Juniperus communis L. ssp. depressa (Pursh) Franco [142]
3) Juniperus communis L. ssp. nana (Willd.) Syme [265]
4) Juniperus communis L. var. alpina Sm. [150]
5) Juniperus communis L. var. jackii Rehder [160]
6) Juniperus deppeana Steud. [302]
7) Juniperus depressa (Pursh) Raf. [143]
8) Juniperus gigantea Roezl p.p. [153]
9) Juniperus horizontalis Moench var. variegata Beissn. [147]
10) Juniperus monosperma (Engelm.) Sarg. var. knightii (A. Nelson) Lemmon [136]

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