Outstanding Features:
Blue-green evergreen foliage with good color maintained throughout the winter; dense upright form.

Description:
Height: 15-20'
Width: 6-8'
Hardiness Zone: 3b

Most Rocky Mountain Juniper cultivars are pyramidal to columnar in form with blue to green foliage. Fruit is a berry-like cone, dark blue-black with a white bloom. Can be used effectively for screens or hedges. Provides a strong vertical accent in the landscape. Native to dry, rocky areas in the eastern foothills of the Rocky Mountains.

Requirements and Culture:
Requires a well drained soil and full sun. Quite drought tolerant. Does well in dry, rocky or sandy soils.

Limitations:
Susceptible to phomopsis blight which can kill individual small branches. Not recommended in the more humid climate of the Lake States Region.

Selected Cultivars:

'Blue Heaven'- has a broad pyramidal form. Not as dense as some without pruning. Has silvery blue foliage color.

'Medora'- has a narrow columnar form, a dense growth habit and blue green foliage.

'Moffettii'- has a dense, pyramidal form with grey-green foliage.

'Welchii'- has a dense, pyramidal plant habit. Foliage is silvery blue-green.

Photo Credit: 1 & 3 MLA, 2 L. Dunsmore. Photographs 1 & 3 are 'Moffettii', 2 is 'Welchii'.

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