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§1 Plant

Prunus cerasifera Ehrh.

vernacular cherry plum — species · Rosaceae


USDA
PRCE2
GBIF
3021730
Rank
species
cherry plum (Prunus cerasifera)
Platephotograph · Janet Hitchen source · iNaturalist ↗

§2Habit & range

Habit and range

Growth habit
Tree
Duration
Perennial
Group
Dicot
Family
Rosaceae Juss.
Genus
Prunus
§2a

Native status, by region

  • CAN Canada Introduced
  • L48 Lower 48 States Introduced
§2b

County-level range

· 37 counties across 9 states/territories
Legend Native · 0 Introduced · 37 Both · 0 Hover a county for detail.

§3Cultivation

No cultivation specs.

USDA has not characterised this taxon. Roughly four out of five plants in the database lack the detailed cultivation record present here — typically because they have not been the focus of NRCS Plant Materials work. Range and distribution data are unaffected.


§4Counties, by state

Recorded in 37 counties across 9 states/territories.


§5Sources & provenance

USDA PLANTS

Symbol, taxonomy, distribution, cultivation specs, native status. Public domain.

plants.usda.gov/PRCE2 ↗

GBIF Backbone

Canonical taxonomic identity, synonym resolution, cross-refs. CC0.

gbif.org/species/3021730 ↗

Record version

Cached and built locally. Source version on this record:

usda-plants-mt-2026-05-26

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