Index / Search / Prunus mahaleb
§1 Plant
Prunus mahaleb L.
vernacular Mahaleb cherry — species · Rosaceae
§2Habit & range
Habit and range
- Growth habit
- Shrub, 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
· 157 counties across 19 states/territories§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 157 counties across 19 states/territories.
Arkansas view state ↗ 3 I ▾
District of Columbia view state ↗ 1 I ▾
Illinois view state ↗ 13 I ▾
Indiana view state ↗ 9 I ▾
Kansas view state ↗ 11 I ▾
Kentucky view state ↗ 23 I ▾
- Anderson 21005
- Bracken 21023
- Campbell 21037
- Clark 21049
- Clinton 21053
- Franklin 21073
- Garrard 21079
- Harrison 21097
- Henry 21103
- Jefferson 21111
- Jessamine 21113
- Lee 21129
- Mason 21161
- Mercer 21167
- Nicholas 21181
- Oldham 21185
- Pendleton 21191
- Robertson 21201
- Scott 21209
- Trimble 21223
- Union 21225
- Warren 21227
- Woodford 21239
Massachusetts view state ↗ 3 I ▾
Michigan view state ↗ 7 I ▾
Missouri view state ↗ 13 I ▾
Montana view state ↗ 1 I ▾
New Jersey view state ↗ 1 I ▾
New York view state ↗ 12 I ▾
North Carolina view state ↗ 1 I ▾
Ohio view state ↗ 16 I ▾
Oklahoma view state ↗ 2 I ▾
Pennsylvania view state ↗ 8 I ▾
Tennessee view state ↗ 16 I ▾
Virginia view state ↗ 8 I ▾
§5Sources & provenance
USDA PLANTS
Symbol, taxonomy, distribution, cultivation specs, native status. Public domain.
plants.usda.gov/PRMA ↗GBIF Backbone
Canonical taxonomic identity, synonym resolution, cross-refs. CC0.
gbif.org/species/3022789 ↗Record version
Cached and built locally. Source version on this record:
usda-plants-mt-2026-05-26
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