Taxon: Juniperus monosperma (Engelm.) Sarg.

Common names:

• cherry-stone juniper   (Source: Hortus 3 ) – English
  
• one-seed juniper   (Source: Gen Juniperus ) – English
  
• sabina   (Source: F NAmer ) – Spanish
  

Economic importance:

• Environmental: ornamental   (fide Dict Gard; Hortus 3)
  
• Materials: beads   (fide Bot Beads World; as web document)
  
• Medicines: folklore   (fide Herbs Commerce ed2)
  
• Weed: weed   (in pastures fide Gen Juniperus)
  

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View ethnobotanical data from Duke's Phytochemical and Ethnobotanical Databases

View ethnobotanical data from Moerman's Native American Ethnobotany Database

Distributional range:

• NORTHERN AMERICA (Check conservation status in U.S. & Canada in NatureServe Explorer database)
  North-Central U.S.A.: United States - Oklahoma
  Northwestern U.S.A.: United States - Colorado
  South-Central U.S.A.: United States - New Mexico, Texas
  Southwestern U.S.A.: United States - Arizona

References:

• Adams, R. P. 2008. Junipers of the world: the genus Juniperus, ed. 2. (Gen Juniperus)
• FNA Editorial Committee. 1993–. Flora of North America. (F NAmer) 420.
• Farjon, A. 2005. A monograph of Cupressaceae and Sciadopitys. (Monog Cupressaceae) 318–321.
• Huxley, A., ed. 1992. The new Royal Horticultural Society dictionary of gardening. (Dict Gard)
• Kartesz, J. T. 1994. A synonymized checklist of the vascular flora of the United States, Canada, and Greenland. (L US Can ed2)
• Liberty Hyde Bailey Hortorium. 1976. Hortus third. (Hortus 3)
• Little, E. L., Jr. 1979. Checklist of United States trees, Agric. Handb. 541. (Trees US)
• McGuffin, M., J. T. Kartesz, A. Y. Leung, & A. O. Tucker. 2000. Herbs of commerce, ed. 2. (Herbs Commerce ed2)
• Silba, J. 1986. Encyclopaedia Coniferae. Phytologia Mem. 8:94.

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Search AGRICOLA article citation database for citations referencing Juniperus monosperma.

Search NCBI's Entrez search engine for PubMed citations referencing Juniperus monosperma. Note: Defaults to a search by genus or species epithet if species binomial not found.

Synonyms:

• (≡) Juniperus occidentalis var. monosperma Engelm. (basionym)
  

Check other databases for Juniperus monosperma (Engelm.) Sarg.:

• Flora of North America: Collaborative Floristic Effort of North American Botanists
• PLANTS: USDA-NRCS Database of Plants of the United States and its Territories
• TROPICOS: Nomenclatural and Specimen Database of the Missouri Botanical Garden
• Gymnosperm Database of Christopher J. Earle
• Mansfeld: Mansfeld's World Database of Agricultural and Horticultural Crops
• ICRA: International Cultivar Registration Authority for Juniperus monosperma cultivars
• ePIC: Electronic Plant Information Centre of Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew
• AGRICOLA: Article Citation Database or NAL Catalog of USDA's National Agricultural Library
• Entrez: NCBI's search engine for PubMed citations, GenBank sequences, etc.
  Note: Defaults to a search by genus or species epithet if species binomial not found.

Images:

• GRIN Images of germplasm accessions.
• Forestry Images: from www.forestryimages.org
• Seeds and mature female cone: U.S. National Seed Herbarium image

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• Check PlantSystematics.org for additional images
• Images Note: Be advised that their identity may be inaccurate. Proper identification of a plant may require specialized taxonomic knowledge or comparison with properly documented herbarium material.

Abbreviations & symbols in GRIN Taxonomy

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