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Eastern Red Cedar (Juniperus virginiana var. virginiana) Durham Co., NC 5 Aug 2006 Common statewide, mostly in a variety of open areas and seemingly favoring circumneutral to mafic soils. |
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Eastern Red Cedar (Juniperus virginiana var. virginiana) Durham Co., NC 5 Aug 2006 The "berries", which are technically fleshy cones, are used to flavor gin and turn dark bluish when mature. |
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Eastern Red Cedar (Juniperus virginiana var. virginiana) Eno River State Park, Orange Co., NC 9 Aug 2008 |
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Coastal Red Cedar, Southern Red Cedar (Juniperus virginiana var. silicicola) New Hanover Co., NC 13 Oct 2007 Often treated as its own species, Juniperus silicicola, in North Carolina this taxon is restricted to the coastal plain, in a variety of habitats from maritime forests to brackish marshes and shell middens. |
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Coastal Red Cedar, Southern Red Cedar (Juniperus virginiana var. silicicola) New Hanover Co., NC 13 Oct 2007 Female reproductive structures (fleshy cones) and scale-like leaves average smaller in this taxon than in the one above. |
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Coastal Red Cedar, Southern Red Cedar (Juniperus virginiana var. silicicola) New Hanover Co., NC 13 Oct 2007 Juniperus virginiana var. silicola crowns tend to be rounder than those of J. virginiana var. virginiana. |
Annotated habitat and distribution information listed above is from Radford, Ahles, & Bell. 1968. Manual of the Vascular Flora of the Carolinas. UNC Press; Alan Weakley's Flora of the Carolinas, Virginia, and Georgia; and from personal observations and discussions with Will Cook, Harry LeGrand, and Bob Wilbur. Supplemental resources include USDA plants website, and NatureServe.
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