creeping juniper

American  

noun

1. a prostrate central North American shrub, Juniperus horizontalis, of the cypress family, of central North America, having bluish-green or gray-blue leaves and blue fruit, growing well in sandy, rocky soil.

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Example Sentences

On the morning of each day a society is given instructions to make the sweathouse at the camping place, a man to get the creeping juniper and another to cut out the smudge place.

From The Sun Dance of the Blackfoot Indians by Wissler, Clark

Characteristic plants are the blueberry and bearberry, mixed with creeping juniper and a few scattered grasses.

From Notes on the Mammals of Gogebic and Ontonagon Counties, Michigan, 1920 Occasional Papers of the Museum of Zoology, Number 109 by Dice, L. R.

Another man is to get the creeping juniper to use in the smudge place in the medicine lodge, and still another is to cut out the smudge place.

From The Sun Dance of the Blackfoot Indians by Wissler, Clark

In March and April these courts receive glorious rich coloring from beds of California poppies and anemones, bordered with creeping juniper.

From Palaces and Courts of the Exposition by James, Juliet Helena Lumbard

Another man digs out the place in the booth, making it the same as the smudge place in the medicine woman's tipi, with the sod on three sides and creeping juniper on top of it.

From The Sun Dance of the Blackfoot Indians by Wissler, Clark