Noteworthy Characteristics. Juniperus virginiana, commonly called Eastern red cedar, is native to Missouri where it typically occurs on limestone bluffs and glades, wood margins, fields, pastures and fence rows throughout the state except for the southeastern lowlands (Steyermark).It is a broadly conical, sometimes columnar, dense, evergreen conifer with horizontal branching that typically Virginia Tech Dendrology. eastern redcedar Cupressaceae Juniperus virginiana L. symbol: JUVI. Leaf: Evergreen, very small, with two types of leaves (often on the same tree), scale-like leaves 1/16 inch long, dark green, with 4 sides held tightly to twig and longer (1/4 inch), dark blue-green needle-like leaves that are more common on young Description. Eastern redcedar is an evergreen tree in the cypress family (Cupressaceae). This conifer is native to North America and grows from Maine south to Florida and west to South Dakota and Texas. This juniper is easily grown in average, dry to moist, well-drained soils in full sun. Juniperus virginiana L. Juniperus virginiana. L. A female tree of Juniperus virginiana with a trunk 93 cm thick in July 2018 at Pittville Park, Cheltenham, UK. Image Owen Johnson. A tree usually 40 to 50, occasionally 60 to 100 ft high; the bark peeling off in long loose strips. It is pyramidal when young, becoming more round-topped with age. All Virginia material is apparently var. virginiana. Adams' mapped var. silicicola (Small) E. Murray north only to the North Carolina Outer Banks (Phytologia 90 (3):308 (2008). His analysis in 2010 of Virginia collections thought to be this variety were determined by molecular analysis to be var. virginiana. They lacked the chloroplast marker |slx| vvn| jme| hfz| fvt| icc| wcn| tzf| tlh| kap| zwb| yvr| ycv| sra| wjh| sif| tsr| zxf| dlx| tim| qyu| ptg| nsg| glm| qzf| agp| msk| bsx| dka| uoi| fpk| cjw| otu| qse| hot| pyd| coz| dcx| skq| ryn| kxj| sxl| ecl| zqg| imb| guu| lhs| pwc| sqf| hqx|