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Junipers Juniperus

Every rated Juniperus record is keep-away — 10 of 18 records, including the genus rated as a group; none is rated fire-resistant. These counts describe the cited records — 18 records carrying 250 evidence rows from 51 cited sources; they do not make one verdict for the genus.

Rated as a group: Juniper Juniperus spp. Keep away Consensus 16 sources rate the genus as a whole. Species evidence never rolls upward into a genus verdict, and genus claims never override a species record. ›
Keep away

9 species

Awaiting evidence

8 species

About junipers

Corpus context. Juniperus is the directory's #18 largest of 550 genus groups: 18 records carrying 250 evidence rows from 51 cited sources, recorded as shrub, groundcover, tree , hardy across USDA zones 3–4. Recorded trait flags: 1 carry resinous foliage flags; 1 carry traps dead material flags; 1 carry fine fuels flags — each cited on its page. Those are corpus facts, not a whole-genus flammability claim.

FEIS-reviewed species in this group (1)

Each link is exact-species context. No statement rolls up to every member of Juniperus.

More about Juniperus: Wikipedia — external references; not evidence sources.

Where rated junipers grow

Tagged as growing in 50 states.

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.
FA Exhibit ID-001. Juniper or redcedar? The scale-leaf lookalikes. 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. Identification only — no flammability claim. Confirm uncertain material with a regional key or a botanist. CC BY 4.0.

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