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lt: most juvenile, needle-type foliage

Juniperus procumbens 'Albovariegata' = 'Variegata'

Juniperus procumbens 'Aureovariegata'
lc: blue-green mottled yellow to about 20-30% of tissue
ns: 'Golden' may be regarded as an improved chimeral selection

Juniperus procumbens 'Bonin Islands' ('Bonin Isles')
ha: slightly denser and more compact than 'Nana'. They need to be side-by-side to contrast this fact.
lc: blue-green
ll: slighter shorter than 'Nana'

Juniperus procumbens 'Golden'
lc: blue-green mottled yellow to 30-50% of tissue.
ns: it is distinct from older 'Aureovariegata'. The simple descriptive
ns: name 'Golden' is allowable since it has been in use before
ns: the Cultivated Code rejected such general names.
or: it has been sold by Monrovia Nursery but origin is not determined.
or: It is similar to all juvenile propagations of J. chinensis
or: (davurica) 'Expansa Aureovariegata' and it may in fact belong
or: to that species.

Juniperus procumbens 'Kisiogima' (11/02)
ha: prostrate, dwarf, very slow for bonsai use
lc: silvery-blue
so: Wave Crest Nursery (online catalog 2002)

Juniperus procumbens 'Nana'
ha: denser and semi-dwarf, mat-forming, fitting the contours of the ground or rocks around it. It is
ha: also popular now to graft it on standards to form cascading fountains or very high for more spreading
ha: and mounded masses of foliage.
lc: blue green, generally tinged purple in cold weathe
id: some stock under this name is apparently J. pingii and J. squamata.
or: Japan
in: D.Hill Nursery, Dundee IL USA c. 1922 to US trade. They brought it from Japan.

Juniperus procumbens 'Nana Californica' = 'Santa Rosa'

Juniperus procumbens 'Nana Glauca'
ha: as 'Nana'
lc: blue green
ns: this name appears on old nursery lists for a bluer 'Nana'. It may
ns: be the same as 'Santa Rosa' but no living plants under this
ns: name have been examined by your editor L.Hatch at this time. It could even
ns: be J. horizontalis 'Glauca Nana' as that species and cultivars
ns: were often confused with J. procumbens.

Juniperus procumbens 'Nana Hill' = 'Nana' 

Juniperus procumbens 'Nana Greenmound' = Juniperus 'Greenmound' 

Juniperus procumbens 'Santa Rosa' ('Nana Californica')
ha: slower and 'finer-textured' variant of 'Nana'
lc: bluer green than 'Nana'
ns: This is at least one of the clones circulating as J. squamata
ns: 'Prostrata' - another clone is Juniperus 'Greenmound'
or: This CA clone of 'Nana' is distinct from the original Midwestern
or: 'Nana' of D.Hill Nur. Dundee IL.
li: Dirr, M.A. 1983. Manual of woody landscape plants. 372. Stipes
li: Pub. Co., Champaign, IL. (as 'Nana Californica')

Juniperus procumbens 'Variegata' ('Albovariegata')
lc: blue green mottled creamy white
id: true 'Aureovariegata' and 'Golden' are distinctly yellow mottled
id: at least one nursery (Select Nur.) uses this name for J. chinensis
id: 'Expansa Aureovariegata' which has mixed juvenile and adult
id: foliage and distinct yellow markings.