February 4,
Blue Hills Reservation, Canton
Common juniper leaves are all of the same prickly kind: there
aren't any scale-like leaves (though there are in other junipers).
Photo of this clone was taken in 2006. By 2011 the clone disappeared leaving
behind only 2-3 tiny branchlets (see the next photo). This is a common fate of
common junipers in Massachusetts, which has recently become much more forested
and much less suitable for such sun-loving woody plants.