The 'Blue Rug' or 'Wilton' Creeping Juniper is a very popular groundcover sold at many conventional nurseries and garden centers. It is very short of about 4 to 6 inches high and intensely blue foliage that is soft from the leaves being the feathery scale-like type rather than the sharp awl-type of leaves that junipers can also have. It gets some purple-bronze color in the winter, but not as much as most other cultivars. It is usually a female clone that bear some silvery-blue berry-like cones in late summer into winter. It came from cuttings taken from plants on Vinalhaven Island off the Maine coast in 1914 and introduced into the trade by South Wilton Nurseries in Wilton, Connecticut.

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