Utah Juniper is a
member of the Cypress Family. It
is a large tree with gray, shaggy bark which grows to
 20
feet in height. Leaves are
yellowish green and scale like and grow to
1/16 inches in length. The plant typically grows
in dry hills, plains, plateaus and mountains in pinyon-juniper forests at elevations between
3000 - 7500 feet. Cones are reddish brown and covered with a grayish
green, waxy coating and contain 1 or 2 seeds to 3/4 inches in diameter.
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Native Americans
used the berries of the Utah Juniper for beads and medicine and
wood for firewood, posts and hogans. |
Utah Juniper is the most common type of
juniper in Arizona. It can be distinguished from the One Seeded
Juniper by the fact that it typically has a single prominent trunk,
where the One Seeded Juniper has multiple branched trunks growing from
ground level.
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