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
  

More:

see MMPND for additional names in foreign scripts

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   (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

• also cultivated

References:

• Adams, R. P. 2008. Junipers of the world: the genus Juniperus, ed. 2.
• FNA Editorial Committee. 1993–. Flora of North America. 420.
• Farjon, A. 2005. A monograph of Cupressaceae and Sciadopitys. 318–321.
• Huxley, A., ed. 1992. The new Royal Horticultural Society dictionary of gardening.
• Kartesz, J. T. 1994. A synonymized checklist of the vascular flora of the United States, Canada, and Greenland.
• Liberty Hyde Bailey Hortorium. 1976. Hortus third.
• Little, E. L., Jr. 1979. Checklist of United States trees, Agric. Handb. 541.
• McGuffin, M., J. T. Kartesz, A. Y. Leung, & A. O. Tucker. 2000. Herbs of commerce, ed. 2.
• Porcher, M. H. et al. Searchable World Wide Web Multilingual Multiscript Plant Name Database (MMPND) (on-line resource).
• Silba, J. 1986. Encyclopaedia Coniferae. Phytologia Mem. 8:94.
• Smith, R. J. Botanical beads of the world (on-line resource).

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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.

Search Biodiversity Heritage Library for historical publications referencing Juniperus monosperma.

Synonyms:

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

Check other web resources 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
• BONAP: North American Plant Atlas of the Biota of North America Program
• 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 (on-line resource). 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.

Images:

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

More:

• 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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