Juniperus scopulorum - Wikipedia
Juniperus scopulorum, the Rocky Mountain juniper, is a species of juniper native to western North America, from southwest Canada to the Great Plains of the United States and small areas of northern Mexico. They are the most widespread of all the New World junipers.
Rocky Mountain Juniper - Montana Field Guide
Erect shrub or small tree up to ca. 6 m with ascending branches and a conical crown. Bark stringy, reddish-brown. Leaves green but often with a whitish, glaucous coat, opposite, scale-like, appressed, 1–2 mm long, entire-margined with an acute but not apiculate tip; juvenile leaves needle-like, 2–6 mm long and ascending.
Juniperus scopulorum (Rocky Mountain juniper) description
Description of the evolution, biology, distribution, ecology, and uses of Juniperus scopulorum (Rocky Mountain juniper).
Forests - Yellowstone National Park (U.S. National Park Service)
Rocky Mountain Juniper (Juniperus scopulorum) Needles scale-like; Cones are small and fleshy; Up to 30 feet tall
Juniper Encroachment - upperyellowstone
Rocky Mountain Juniper ( Juniperus scopulorum) commonly grow to be more than 250 years old, and specimens over 1,000 years old have been found. The species’ resinous branches and thin bark make them susceptible to wildfire which historically relegated them to rocky, marginal soils where regularly occurring wildfire could not effectively carry.
Plants - Yellowstone National Park (U.S. National Park Service)
Shrubs: include common juniper, sagebrush (many species), Rocky Mountain maple. Three endemic species (found only in Yellowstone): Ross's bentgrass, Yellowstone sand verbena, Yellowstone sulfur wild buckwheat.
Yellowstone's Photo Collection - U.S. National Park Service
Rocky Mountain juniper (Juniperus scopulorum) & sunset near Mammoth Hot Springs; Jim Peaco; July 1998
Species: Juniperus scopulorum - US Forest Service
Rocky Mountain juniper is a favored nesting tree of chipping sparrows, robins, song sparrows, and mockingbirds , and is used for nesting by sharp-shinned hawks in Utah . Juncos, myrtle warblers, sparrows and other birds roost in the dense foliage .
Rocky Mountain Juniper (Yellowstone Conifers) - iNaturalist
Juniperus scopulorum (Rocky Mountain Juniper) is a species of juniper native to western North America, in Canada in British Columbia and southwest Alberta, in the United States from Washington east to North Dakota, south to Arizona and also locally western Texas, and northernmost Mexico from Sonora east to Coahuila. It grows at altitudes of 500 ...
Rocky Mountain juniper is a native, perennial, evergreen tree found over broad expanses of Montana and Wyoming. It is a long-lived, shallow-rooted, winter hardy and drought tolerant species
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