Shrubs or trees monoecious, to 6(--12) m, multi-or single-stemmed; crown rounded. Bark exfoliating in thin gray-brown strips, that of smaller and larger branchlets smooth. Branches spreading to ascending; branchlets erect, 3--4-sided in cross section, about as wide as length of scalelike leaves. Leaves light yellow-green, abaxial glands inconspicuous and embedded, exudate absent, margins denticulate (at 20´); whip leaves 3--5 mm, glaucous adaxially; scalelike leaves 1--2 mm, not overlapping, or, if so, by less than 1/10 their length, keeled, apex rounded, acute or occasionally obtuse, appressed. Seed cones maturing in 1--2 years, of 1--2 sizes, with straight peduncles, globose, (6--)8--9(--12) mm, bluish brown, often almost tan beneath glaucous coating, fibrous, with 1(--2) seeds. Seeds 4--5 mm.
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A small cone shaped tree. It grows 7.5 m high. The trunk is short and highly branched. The bark is brown and fibrous. The leaves are green and like scales. They overlap and 3-5 mm long. The fruit are round or oblong and reddish-brown. They have a white bloom.
Codominant in Pinyon-Juniper woodland, also forming pure stands at lower elevations, growing on rocky or gravelly alluvial fans and hillsides, growing in crevices in the rock onbare sandstone or shale; at elevations from 460-2,700 metres.
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It is a temperate plant. It suits hardiness zones 4-9.
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