Juniperus virginiana 'Grey Owl'
Grey Owl Eastern Redcedar

 Plant Type:
 Growth Forms:
 Hardiness:
 Deciduous / Evergreen:
 Foliage Notes:
Silver (Silvery gray-green evergreen foliage)
 Fruit Notes:
Blue (An abundance of attractive blue berries (cones))
 Ultimate Height:
2-3 feet
 Ultimate Spread:
4-6 feet
 Light Requirements:
 Soil Notes:
Widely adapted to soils, except those that are wet
 Diagnostic Characteristics:
Leaves mostly scale-like, 4-ranked, closely pressed and overlapping, 0.06" long, and free at apex. Awl-like leaves (0.25") are glaucous above, and green below, usually in pairs found mostly on older plants. Branchlets are very narrow (less than 1 mm thick). Bruised foliage smells of cedar. Gray brown to red brown bark exfoliates in long strips.

Additional Information

'Grey Owl' is compact, broad, wide-spreading evergreen, female shrub with glaucous gray-blue foliage and an abundance of blue berries (cones). Widely adapted to soils and climates. Does well in alkaline soils, but not wet soils. Alternate host for cedar-apple rust disease. Plant other juniper species in areas having many apples, hawthorns, etc. Susceptible to bagworms.

78 Juniperus virginiana 'Grey Owl' found

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