OF THE CAROLINAS & GEORGIA

Spermatophytes (seed plants): Angiosperms (flowering plants): Eudicots: Core Eudicots: Rosids: Fabids: Rosales

WEAKLEY'S FLORA OF THE SOUTHEASTERN US (4/14/23):
 Prunus nigra   FAMILY Rosaceae   Go to FSUS key

SYNONYMOUS WITH PLANTS NATIONAL DATABASE:
Prunus nigra   FAMILY Rosaceae

SYNONYMOUS WITH Floristic Synthesis of North America. BONAP (Kartesz, 2021)

Prunus nigra

SYNONYMOUS WITH Flora of North America north of Mexico, vol. 9 (2014)

Prunus nigra

SYNONYMOUS WITH Floristic Synthesis of North America (Kartesz, 1999)

Prunus nigra

 

COMMON NAME:
 Canada Plum

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image of Prunus nigra, Canada Plum

USDA-NRCS PLANTS Database / Britton, N.L., and A. Brown. 1913    pnd_prni_001_lvd

        

 

 

WEAKLEY'S FLORA OF THE SOUTHEASTERN US (4/14/23):
 Prunus nigra   FAMILY Rosaceae

SYNONYMOUS WITH PLANTS NATIONAL DATABASE:
Prunus nigra   FAMILY Rosaceae

SYNONYMOUS WITH Floristic Synthesis of North America. BONAP (Kartesz, 2021)
 Prunus nigra

SYNONYMOUS WITH Flora of North America north of Mexico, vol. 9
 Prunus nigra

SYNONYMOUS WITH Floristic Synthesis of North America (Kartesz, 1999)
 Prunus nigra

 

Find by SCIENTIFIC NAME:

4917

Tree
Perennial

Habitat: Old fields, hedgerows, forest edges, per Weakley's Flora

Native to North Carolina

Rare

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IS THE PLANT "ARMED"?
Armed with spinose spur shoots

LEAVES:
Deciduous
Simple
Alternate

FLOWER:
Spring
White
Radially symmetrical
5 united sepals
5 petals
Superior ovary

Inflorescences of 2-4 flowers

FRUIT:
Summer
Red
Drupe

 

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