PINACEAE 



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JUNIPERUS (Tournefort) Linnaeus 

 The Junipers Red Cedars 



The junipers are evergreen trees and shrubs having small, 

 awllike or scalelike evergreen leaves arranged on the twigs in 

 whorls of three, and berry-like, bloom-covered fruits, which 

 contain 1 to 3 oval, bony seeds. They are best known in Illinois 

 by the Red Cedar, a tree species that grows throughout the 

 state as a weed in desolated soil and is in evil repute in orchard 

 regions because of its relation to important rust diseases of 

 apples. The single shrubby species native in the state is the 

 following. 



JUNIPERUS COMMUNIS Linnaeus ' 



Common Juniper 



The Common Juniper, fig. 2, is generally low and spreading, 

 with branches clothed in short, awllike leaves, but occasionally 

 it attains a height of 6 or more feet. Its spreading, sharply 

 pointed leaves, set in close or distant whorls and lacking petioles, 





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FIG. 2 

 Juniperus communis 



