Juniperus communisL.

common juniper

WFO wfo-0000355532 Accepted WFO 2026-06 8 photographs CC0 / CC BY

Plate 1 figs. a–h

Juniperus communis, photographed by Alessia Guggisberg
fig. a Alessia Guggisberg, CC BY 4.0 / 2022-06-09 / obs. 204692580
Juniperus communis, photographed by Виктория Билоус
fig. b Виктория Билоус, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 205701732
Juniperus communis, photographed by Jason Grant
fig. c Jason Grant, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 205217501
Juniperus communis, photographed by Mary Krieger
fig. d Mary Krieger, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 205024478
Juniperus communis, photographed by Mary Krieger
fig. e Mary Krieger, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 205659611
Juniperus communis, photographed by John Kenrick Gibson
fig. f John Kenrick Gibson, CC0 1.0 / obs. 205250004
Juniperus communis, photographed by Quinten Wiegersma
fig. g Quinten Wiegersma, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 205337644
Juniperus communis, photographed by Виктория Билоус
fig. h Виктория Билоус, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 205701795

Every figure is a research-grade observation under CC0, CC BY or CC BY-SA, rehosted with the photographer’s name, the licence and the observation it came from. Photographs under a NonCommercial licence are excluded from this site and are never stored, which costs us a great many pictures and is not negotiable.

Confused withby our own model

These are not lookalikes we guessed at. Each one is a species our identification model genuinely mistook for this plant, and how many times. The error rate is published.

Also published as 108 synonyms

A synonym is not an error. It is a record of botanists disagreeing, in print, about where this plant belongs. Each of these was somebody’s considered answer.

  • Juniperus albanica Pénzes ex Carrière
  • Juniperus alpina Hill
  • Juniperus alpina Gray
  • Juniperus argaea Balansa ex Parl.
  • Juniperus borealis Salisb.
  • Juniperus caesia Regel
  • Juniperus canadensis Burgsd.
  • Juniperus caucasica Fisch. ex Gordon
  • Juniperus communis f. aurea (G.Nicholson) Rehder
  • Juniperus communis f. aureospica (Rehder) O.L.Lipa
  • Juniperus communis f. compressa (Carrière) Rehder
  • Juniperus communis f. crispa Browicz & Ziel.
  • Juniperus communis f. oblonga-pendula (Loudon) Beissn.
  • Juniperus communis f. pendula (Carrière) Formánek
  • Juniperus communis f. pendulina Kuphaldt
  • Juniperus communis f. pungens Velen.
  • Juniperus communis f. pygmaea (K.Koch) R.P.Adams & Tashev
  • Juniperus communis f. stricta (Carrière) Rehder
  • Juniperus communis f. suecica (Mill.) Beissn.
  • Juniperus communis subsp. alpina (Suter) Čelak
  • Juniperus communis subsp. brevifolia (Sanio) Pénzes
  • Juniperus communis subsp. communis
  • Juniperus communis subsp. cupressiformis Vict. & Sennen ex Pénzes
  • Juniperus communis subsp. depressa (Pursh) Franco

and 84 more.

Sourcesevery claim on this page

  1. World Flora Online Plant List. accepted name, authority, classification. CC0. Retrieved 2026-07-12.
  2. iNaturalist. photographs and flowering annotations, CC0 / CC BY / CC BY-SA only. per photograph. Retrieved 2026-06-27.

We publish what we can source and we say so when we cannot. This page has no care advice, no toxicity claim and no native range, because we do not yet have those from a source we can cite.