Native across Canada, mainly on limy soils. A common, prostrate shrub, 5-25cm high; usually forming large mats with trailing branches to 10+m long. Leaves, green or bluish, of two types; a few juvenile, sharp-tipped, 5-7mm long, on vigourous young branches; adult, scale-like, overlapping, hugging stem, mostly in opposite pairs. Foliage aromatic. Bark, fissured, brown. Flowers, sexes on separate plants, small, unnoticed except in spring when males are dispersing pollen; May. Fruit, a fleshy, bluish, berry-like cone, to 6mm, with 1-6 seeds, at end of branchlets; maturing in first year. Habitat: dry, sunny, sandy and rocky areas, river banks, rarely in open woods. Commonly afflicted by a ?witches-broom? growth. s.Weas.N50.59.404/W114.09.142.
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