USDA Zones: 2 - 9
Light: sun
Form: Spreading
Height:  6 to 24 inches
Width:  4 to 8 inches

Special Features:
Attractive Foliage
Beds/Borders
Easy to Grow
Tolerates Drought
Tolerates Salt
U.S. Native

A North American native, creeping juniper is a dense, low-spreading shrub that grows 1 to 2 feet tall and 4 to 8 feet wide. It's a tough plant, tolerating heat and drought well.

With its silvery blue-green needle-like foliage that turns purple in winter, it makes an impressive ground cover and provides useful erosion control in the landscape, especially near beaches -- it tolerates salt well.

Notable Varieties

• 'Bar Harbor' grows 6 to 8 inches tall and has blue-green foliage in summer that turns purplish in winter.
• 'Douglasii' produces blue-green foliage that turns silvery blue in winter on 6- to 8-inch-tall plants.
• 'Wiltonii' is a fine ground cover with blue-green foliage.