You know how some days you feel kind of lazy and just want to do something fun? Well, I was having one of those days, just sort of goofing around on the rock bands above Bowery Creek, but I decided that I needed to buckle down and take the opportunity to do some learning. For the past couple of weeks I've really been irritated by my inability to distinguish, on the fly, between the Utah (Juniperus osteosperma) and the Rocky Mountain (J. scopulorum) juniper. As I'm sure my reader knows, sometimes this kind of thing just takes a little concentration. So, I made myself work on it for a couple of hours. I'm not confident I can do it from the freeway, but I got to be pretty good at species ID while walking briskly. As you can see (from the image below), once you take a close look, the leaves turn out to be quite easy to distinguish.
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