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Also called ground cedar. Part of juniper genus Juniperus in cypress family Cupressaceae.
Native to large parts of 🇨🇦 Canada and Iceland, coastal Greenland, and 🗻︎ mountainous or northern 🇺🇸 USA. 🌎︎ Map (scroll down) 🌎︎ Map (.pdf).
Uses by native peoples(Ethnobotany database)
Juniperus hosts caterpillars of 41 speciesof butterflies and moths, in some areas.
Junipers are the winter host for fungal disease trellis rust (TR) Gymnosporangium sabinae (.pdf). Which then transfers to nearby 🍐︎ pear genus Pyrus as the summer host. Then back again! So in areas that may have this disease, do not plant these two hosts within 300 m (1000 ft) of each other!
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cypress family Cupressaceae juniper genus Juniperus