Index / Search / Prunus virginiana var. virginiana

§1 Plant

Prunus virginiana L. var. virginiana

vernacular chokecherry — variety · Rosaceae


USDA
PRVIV
GBIF
6620109
Rank
variety
chokecherry (Prunus virginiana var. virginiana)
Platephotograph · Dan MullenCC BY-NC-ND source · iNaturalist ↗

§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 Native
  • L48 Lower 48 States Native
  • SPM St. Pierre & Miquelon Native
§2b

County-level range

· 600 counties across 25 states/territories
Legend Native · 600 Introduced · 0 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 600 counties across 25 states/territories.

Arkansas view state ↗ 2 N
District of Columbia view state ↗ 1 N
Iowa view state ↗ 3 N
Kansas view state ↗ 2 N
Kentucky view state ↗ 9 N
Maine view state ↗ 15 N
Massachusetts view state ↗ 14 N
Michigan view state ↗ 77 N
Minnesota view state ↗ 79 N
Missouri view state ↗ 43 N
Nebraska view state ↗ 1 N
New Hampshire view state ↗ 10 N
New Jersey view state ↗ 12 N
New York view state ↗ 40 N
North Carolina view state ↗ 4 N
Ohio view state ↗ 75 N
Oklahoma view state ↗ 4 N
Pennsylvania view state ↗ 65 N
Rhode Island view state ↗ 2 N
South Dakota view state ↗ 1 N
Tennessee view state ↗ 6 N
Vermont view state ↗ 13 N
Virginia view state ↗ 32 N
West Virginia view state ↗ 19 N
Wisconsin view state ↗ 71 N

§5Sources & provenance

USDA PLANTS

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

plants.usda.gov/PRVIV ↗

GBIF Backbone

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

gbif.org/species/6620109 ↗

Record version

Cached and built locally. Source version on this record:

usda-plants-mt-2026-05-26

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