![]() ![]() Specific epithet is in obvious reference to the horizontal branches. ![]() Genus name comes from the Latin name for the juniper. Fleshy seed cones (dark blue berries) generally mature in two years, but are often absent on cultivated plants. Foliage is typically green to blue-green during the growing season, but often acquires purple tones in winter. Foliage is primarily scale-like (adult) with some awl/needle-like (juvenile) needles appearing usually in opposite pairs. It forms a low groundcover that generally rises to 6-18” tall but spreads by long trailing branches with abundant short branchlets to form an often-dense, 4-10’ wide mat. It is typically found growing in rocky or sandy soils including rock outcroppings, stony slopes, coastal cliffs, prairies, sand dunes and stream banks. from New England to New York to the Great Lakes, Wyoming and Montana. Creeping juniper is a species of graceful, aromatic, low-growing, evergreen shrubby conifers native to the boreal and subarctic regions in North America, though some populations are also scattered further south in America. Juniperus horizontalis, commonly called creeping juniper, is a procumbent evergreen shrub that is native to Alaska, Canada and the northern U.S.
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