Too many junk mailboxes

I use Mail on my Mac as the client for my company's Gmail service.  Mail has 4 mailboxes for junk mail, and I'm not sure if I can delete any of them, and if so, which one(s).  Under Gmail, there is a mailbox labled "spam".  I assume that gmail itself filters incoming messages and puts the spam here.  But also, under iCloud, there is 1 mailbox labeled "junk", 1 labeled "junk(@me.com)", and 1 labeled "junk email."  How can I clean up this mess?  And if I manually move a message to junk, which one do I use?

Apple support article with some information on extra junk mailboxes:
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