Sabina vulgaris is a creeping shrub. Branches spread obliquely, fresh branches and leaves smell when rubbing, annual branches are columnar, alternately opposite or 3 leaves, with sharp tips and rectangular glands in the middle, alternately opposite, blunt or sharp tips, and oval or oval glands in the middle of the back. Dioecious, sparsely coextensive, the male cones are oval or oblong, and the female cones are bent or erect in advance and then droop. Cones are born at the top of downward curved branchlets, brown or purple-blue or black when mature, triangular and spherical, with 2-3 seeds, often oval and slightly flat, with longitudinal ridges and resin grooves. Born on rocky hillside at an altitude of 1 100-2800 meters, or in coniferous forest or mixed coniferous and broad-leaved forest, or on sand dunes. It has strong drought tolerance and can be used as afforestation tree species for soil and water conservation and sand fixation. Southern Europe to Central Asia and northwestern China. Type specimens were collected from southern Europe.