Leaves: alternate, opposite, or whorled, scale-like, awl-shaped or linear; leafy branches sometimes deciduous with age
Plants: monoecious or dioecious
Pollen: in cones with small, spiral, opposite or whorled scales
Ovules: in cones, these mostly woody at maturity, fleshy and berry-like in Juniperus, several to many cone scales that are flattened or peltate, alternate, opposite or whorled, adnate to subtending bract nearly to apex, ovules 2-many per scale; scales separating at maturity or cones disintegrating
Seeds: small, wingless, falling free from scales