Foliage Notes:
Green (Emerald green; needle-like or scale-like); Purple (Foliage tends to take on a plum to purple tinge in the fall and winter)
Fruit Notes:
Blue (Cones; rarely produced)
Soil Notes:
Widely adapted to soils, even slightly alkaline and heavy clay soils, but not wet soils
Diagnostic Characteristics:
Mostly scale-like leaves (<0.2" long), usually in pairs, sharp pointed, and 4-ranked. Long ascending branches with numerous upward projecting branchlets. Plant is more mounded in the center and has a feathery appearance due to densely set branchlets.
