Juniperus deppeanaSteud.

alligator juniper

WFO wfo-0000355474 Accepted WFO 2026-06 8 photographs CC0 / CC BY

Plate 1 figs. a–h

Juniperus deppeana, photographed by Reid Hardin
fig. a Reid Hardin, CC BY 4.0 / 2022-05-16 / obs. 199875370
Juniperus deppeana, photographed by Rachel Stringham
fig. b Rachel Stringham, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 201449450
Juniperus deppeana, photographed by Andrew Tree
fig. c Andrew Tree, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 198196085
Juniperus deppeana, photographed by Rachel Stringham
fig. d Rachel Stringham, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 182525089
Juniperus deppeana, photographed by mark-groeneveld
fig. e mark-groeneveld, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 189656438
Juniperus deppeana, photographed by Alexandre Passos
fig. f Alexandre Passos, CC0 1.0 / obs. 181863826
Juniperus deppeana, photographed by Rafael Torres
fig. g Rafael Torres, CC BY-SA 4.0 / obs. 174901594
Juniperus deppeana, photographed by Mike Ostrowski
fig. h Mike Ostrowski, CC BY-SA 4.0 / obs. 179188605

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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 28 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 deppeana f. elongata R.P.Adams
  • Juniperus deppeana f. sperryi (Correll) R.P.Adams
  • Juniperus deppeana f. zacatecensis (Martínez) R.P.Adams
  • Juniperus deppeana subsp. pachyphlaea (Torr.) Silba
  • Juniperus deppeana subsp. patoniana (Martínez) Silba
  • Juniperus deppeana subsp. robusta (Martínez) Silba
  • Juniperus deppeana subsp. sperryi (Correll) A.E.Murray
  • Juniperus deppeana subsp. zacatecensis (Martínez) Silba
  • Juniperus deppeana var. obscura (Martínez) Gaussen
  • Juniperus deppeana var. pachyphlaea (Torr.) Martínez
  • Juniperus deppeana var. patoniana (Martínez) Zanoni
  • Juniperus foetida Spach
  • Juniperus foetida var. multicaulis Spach
  • Juniperus gigantea Roezl
  • Juniperus mexicana Schiede ex Schltdl. & Cham.
  • Juniperus pachyderma Torr. ex Sitgr.
  • Juniperus pachyphlaea Torr.
  • Juniperus pachyphlaea f. ericoides Beissn.
  • Juniperus patoniana Martínez
  • Juniperus patoniana f. obscura Martínez
  • Juniperus patoniana var. patoniana
  • Juniperus thurifera Spach
  • Juniperus zacatecensis (Martínez) Gaussen
  • Sabina deppeana (Steud.) Y.Yang & K.S.Mao

and 4 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.