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§1 Plant
Juniperus monosperma (Engelm.) Sarg.
vernacular oneseed juniper — species · Cupressaceae
§2Habit & range
Habit and range
- Growth habit
- Shrub, Tree
- Duration
- Perennial
- Group
- Gymnosperm
- Family
- Cupressaceae Gray
- Genus
- Juniperus
§2a
Native status, by region
- L48 Lower 48 States Native
§2b
County-level range
· 70 counties across 7 states/territories§3Cultivation specs · USDA
Recorded by the USDA Plant Materials Program.
§3a
Tolerances
- Drought
- High
- Shade
- High
- Moisture use
- Low
- Fire
- None
- Salinity
- None
- Anaerobic
- None
- CaCO₃
- High
- Hedging
- High
§3b
Climate & soil
- Cold tolerance
- -13 °F minimum
- Frost-free days
- 180 min.
- Precipitation
- 8–26 in/yr
- pH range
- 7–8.5
- Root depth
- 12 in min.
- Fertility need
- Low
- Soil texture
- coarse, medium, fine
§3c
Form & growth
- Growth form
- Multiple Stem
- Growth rate
- Slow
- Lifespan
- Long
- Mature height
- 40 ft
- Height @ 20 y
- 20 ft
- Foliage texture
- Fine
- Foliage colour
- Dark Green
- Porosity (summer)
- Dense
- Porosity (winter)
- Dense
- Flower colour
- Orange
- Fruit colour
- Purple
- Fire resistant
- No
- N fixation
- None
- Toxicity
- None
§3d
Reproduction
- Bloom period
- Early Spring
- Seed abundance
- High
- Seed begins
- Summer
- Seed ends
- Fall
- Spread rate
- Slow
- Stratify
- No
- Seeds / lb
- 17,630
- Propagation
- seed, bare root, container
§3e
Use & availability
- Commercial availability
- Field Collections Only
- Nursery stock
- Yes
- Browse palatability
- Low
- Graze palatability
- Low
- Palatable, human
- Yes
- Protein potential
- Low
- Lumber
- Yes
- Fuelwood
- Medium
- Christmas tree
- No
§4Counties, by state
Recorded in 70 counties across 7 states/territories.
Arizona view state ↗ 8 N ▾
Colorado view state ↗ 10 N ▾
Kansas view state ↗ 1 N ▾
New Mexico view state ↗ 23 N ▾
- Bernalillo 35001
- Colfax 35007
- Dona Ana 35013
- Eddy 35015
- Grant 35017
- Guadalupe 35019
- Harding 35021
- Lincoln 35027
- Luna 35029
- McKinley 35031
- Mora 35033
- Quay 35037
- Rio Arriba 35039
- Roosevelt 35041
- San Juan 35045
- San Miguel 35047
- Sandoval 35043
- Santa Fe 35049
- Sierra 35051
- Socorro 35053
- Taos 35055
- Torrance 35057
- Union 35059
Oklahoma view state ↗ 2 N ▾
Texas view state ↗ 25 N ▾
- Armstrong 48011
- Brewster 48043
- Briscoe 48045
- Culberson 48109
- Deaf Smith 48117
- Dickens 48125
- Donley 48129
- El Paso 48141
- Garza 48169
- Hansford 48195
- Hemphill 48211
- Hudspeth 48229
- Hutchinson 48233
- Jeff Davis 48243
- Lubbock 48303
- Ochiltree 48357
- Oldham 48359
- Pecos 48371
- Potter 48375
- Randall 48381
- Roberts 48393
- Sherman 48421
- Swisher 48437
- Terrell 48443
- Throckmorton 48447
Utah view state ↗ 1 N ▾
§5Sources & provenance
USDA PLANTS
Symbol, taxonomy, distribution, cultivation specs, native status. Public domain.
plants.usda.gov/JUMO ↗GBIF Backbone
Canonical taxonomic identity, synonym resolution, cross-refs. CC0.
gbif.org/species/2684633 ↗Record version
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