A low-growing spreading form of creeping juniper with blue green color turning reddish purple in winter. It has a slow to medium growth rate, about 10' in ten years with a deep taproot. It is long lived. Typically, 'Bar Harbor' is male, but both male and female forms are known. (zones 3-9).

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Attributes:
A fine low-growing, spreading form of ground cover, blue-green in summer and reddish plum in winter. It adapts to many planting sites from hot, dry, and sunny locations to sloping, and exposed areas found in sea cliffs and rocky coast.

Description:
A low-growing spreading form of creeping juniper with blue green color turning reddish purple in winter. It has a slow to medium growth rate, of about 10' in ten years with a deep taproot. It is long lived. Typically, 'Bar Harbor' is male, but both male and female forms are known. (zones 3-9).

Wildlife Value:
Juniper berries are good wildlife food, high in vitamin C.

History/Lore/Use:
The creeping juniper is a North American native plant. This cultivar comes from Mt. Desert Island, Maine.

Moisture:
Tolerates hot, dry, sites and coastal sites within range of salt spray.

Leaves:
Awl-shaped leaves, loosely appressed in ranks of 4, soft-textured, scale-like. 1/6" long with bluish-green color in summer, turning reddish purple in winter.

Flower Color:
Inconspicious, male is pale brown, female is yellow green.

Bloom Time:
Late May to Early June.

Fruit Description:
Generally a male form of creeping juniper. The cones are 1/4"-1/3" long, dark blue weathering to gray.