Habitat:Cliffs, balds, or ledges, meadows and fields, ridges or ledges, talus and rocky slopes. Common juniper has separate male and female plants; male plants have tiny yellow cones that shed wind-dispersed pollen,
while female plants have berry-like, fleshy 'seed cones' which become purple-black on maturity. This juniper has the most extensive worldwide native range of any woody plant. Although, in other parts of the world, Juniperus communis,
can become a 30' - 40'+ tree, it is almost always found as a short, wide, prostate shrub here in New England. |
