{"id":"id-001","license":"CC-BY-4.0","data":{"title":"Juniper or redcedar? The scale-leaf lookalikes","file":"/diagrams/id-001-juniper-or-redcedar.svg","caption":"FA Exhibit ID-001. One species stands for each genus; identify by spray form and cone type, never by bark or the common name.","alt":"Two-panel identification comparison. Left, a Juniperus scopulorum branch traced from a 1915 USDA plate — rounded three-dimensional sprays with round berry-like cones ringed in accent. Right, a Thuja plicata branch traced from Sudworth's 1908 plate — flattened fanlike sprays with a cluster of small open cones ringed in accent. A bottom band notes that bark does not distinguish the two.","kind":"diagram","rights":"cc-by-4.0","depicts":"Diagnostic foliage and cone differences between Juniperus and Thuja, drawn from public-domain USDA botanical plates","identifiableAddress":false,"exifGpsStripped":true,"derivation":"Claims quoted from USFS FEIS species reviews (Scher 2002, Juniperus scopulorum; Tesky 1992, Thuja plicata). Specimen art traced from public-domain USDA plates — Bulletin 207 (1915) Plate IX and Sudworth, Forest Trees of the Pacific Slope (1908), Fig. 60 — via Internet Archive / Wikimedia Commons.","technicalReviewer":"Grayson Graham","lastVerified":"2026-08-24T00:00:00.000Z","sourceUrl":"https://research.fs.usda.gov/feis/species-reviews/junsco"}}