      
Taxon: Juniperus virginiana L.
Genus: Juniperus
Family: Cupressaceae.
Nomen number: 20878
Place of publication: Sp. pl. 2:1039. 1753
Typification: View record from Linnaean Plant Name Typification Project
of the Natural History Museum of London.
Name verified on: 13-Jul-2007 by ARS Systematic Botanists. Last updated: 13-Jul-2007
Species priority site is: National Arboretum (NA).
Accessions:
15 in National Plant Germplasm System.
See also subordinate taxa:
- coast juniper (Source: Monog Cupresssaceae) – English [Juniperus virginiana var. silicicola]
- coastal red-cedar (Source: F NAmer
) – English [Juniperus virginiana var. silicicola]
- eastern red-cedar (Source: F NAmer
) – English [Juniperus virginiana var. virginiana]
- eastern red-cedar (Source: World Econ Pl
) – English
- pencil-cedar (Source: Dict Rehm
) – English
- pencil-cedar (Source: Monog Cupressaceae
) – English [Juniperus virginiana var. virginiana]
- red juniper (Source: Monog Cupressaceae
) – English [Juniperus virginiana var. virginiana]
- red juniper (Source: Trees US
) – English
- red-cedar (Source: HerbSpices
) – English
- red-cedar (Source: Monog Cupressaceae
) – English [Juniperus virginiana var. virginiana]
- red-cedar (Source: Monog Cupresssaceae) – English [Juniperus virginiana var. silicicola]
- sand-cedar (Source: Monog Cupresssaceae) – English [Juniperus virginiana var. silicicola]
- southern red-cedar (Source: F NAmer
) – English [Juniperus virginiana var. silicicola]
- Virginia juniper (Source: BSBI
) – English
- virginia-cedar (Source: Gen Juniperus
) – English [Juniperus virginiana var. virginiana]
- potloodseder (Source: Weeds SAfr 2001
) – Afrikaans
- rooiseder (Source: Weeds SAfr 2001
) – Afrikaans
- cèdre rouge (Source: F NAmer
) – French [Juniperus virginiana var. virginiana]
- cèdre rouge (Source: Monog Cupressaceae
) – French
- genévrier de Virginie (Source: HerbSpices
) – French
- savin (Source: Monog Cupressaceae
) – French
- savin (Source: Monog Cupressaceae
) – French [Juniperus virginiana var. virginiana]
- virginischer Wacholder (Source: Dict Rehm
) – German
- Harmful organism host: crop diseases (cedar apple rust fide Compendium of apple and pear diseases 11. 1990. APS)
- Environmental: ornamental (fide Monog Cupressaceae)
- Materials: essential oils; wood (timber fide F Eur; Ency CNatIn, in perfumery & as clearing agent)
- Medicines: folklore (fide CRC MedHerbs ed2; Herbs Commerce ed2)
- Social: religious/secular (Christmas tree fide AH 519)
- More:
Native: (links to
other web resources are provided for some distributions)
- NORTHERN AMERICA
(Check conservation status in U.S. & Canada in NatureServe Explorer database)
Eastern Canada: Canada - Ontario, Quebec
Northeastern U.S.A.: United States - Connecticut, Indiana, Maine, Massachusetts, Michigan, New Hampshire, New Jersey, New York, Ohio, Pennsylvania, Rhode Island, Vermont
North-Central U.S.A.: United States - Illinois, Iowa, Kansas, Minnesota, Missouri, Nebraska, North Dakota, Oklahoma, South Dakota, Wisconsin
Southeastern U.S.A.: United States - Alabama, Arkansas, Delaware, District of Columbia, Florida, Georgia, Kentucky, Louisiana, Maryland, Mississippi, North Carolina, South Carolina, Tennessee, Virginia
South-Central U.S.A.: United States - Texas
Naturalized:
- Adams, R. P.
2000. Systematics of smooth leaf margin Juniperus of the western hemisphere based on essential oils and RAPD DNA fingerprinting.
Biochem. Syst. & Ecol.
28:149–162.
- Adams, R. P.
2008. Junipers of the world: the genus Juniperus, ed. 2. (Gen Juniperus)
- American Phytopathological Society.
1990. Compendium of apple and pear diseases.
In: American Phytopathological Society, The disease compendium series. (Diseas Comp)
11.
- Botanical Society of the British Isles.
2007. BSBI checklist. (BSBI)
- Craker, L. E. & J. E. Simon, eds.
1986–1987. Herbs, spices, and medicinal plants, 2 vols. (HerbSpices)
- Duke, J. A. et al.
2002. CRC Handbook of medicinal herbs. (CRC MedHerbs ed2)
- FNA Editorial Committee.
1993–. Flora of North America. (F NAmer)
2:417. [with two varieties].
- Farjon, A.
2005. A monograph of Cupressaceae and Sciadopitys. (Monog Cupressaceae)
396–397.
- Henderson, L.
2001. Alien weeds and invasive plants: a complete guide to declared weeds and invaders in South Africa. Plant Protection Research Institute, Handbook 12. (Weeds SAfr 2001)
- 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)
[with two varieties].
- Leung, A. Y. & S. Foster.
1996. Encyclopedia of common natural ingredients used in food, drugs, and cosmetics, ed. 2. (Ency CNatIn)
- Little, E. L., Jr.
1978. Important forest trees of the United States. (AH 519)
- 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)
- Rehm, S.
1994. Multilingual dictionary of agronomic plants. (Dict Rehm)
- Silba, J.
1986. Encyclopaedia Coniferae.
Phytologia Mem.
8:101–102.
- Tutin, T. G. et al., eds.
1964–1980. Flora europaea. (F Eur)
- Wu Zheng-yi & P. H. Raven et al., eds.
1994–. Flora of China (English edition). (F ChinaEng)
- More:
Synonyms:
Check other databases for Juniperus virginiana L.:
-
Flora Europaea: Database of European Plants (ESFEDS)
- Flora of North America: Collaborative Floristic Effort of North American Botanists
- Flora of China: Online version from Harvard University
- 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 virginiana 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:
- 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.
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USDA, ARS, National Genetic Resources Program.
Germplasm Resources Information Network - (GRIN) [Online Database].
National Germplasm Resources Laboratory, Beltsville,
Maryland.
URL: http://www.ars-grin.gov/cgi-bin/npgs/html/taxon.pl?20878 (09 February 2010)
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