Family: Rosaceae
bird cherry, fire cherry, pin cherry
Matthew L. Wagner
Matthew L. Wagner
University of Wisconsin - Madison (WIS-VP)
Etymology: Prunus: ancient Latin name for the plum
Plants: perennial tree
Hazardous: Careful, this plant is hazardous!
Conservation Status: Native
Plants: perennial tree
Hazardous: Careful, this plant is hazardous!
Conservation Status: Native
Borders, blow-overs, eroding slopes, and clearings in forests of birch-balsam fir, pine-oak, aspen, oak-hickory, oak, pine, sugar maple-basswood, aspen-elm-birch- red maple-balsam fir, maple-white cedar-ash, red maple-hemlock-birch-aspen, elm-ash; including swamps of spruce, white cedar, white cedar-hemlock-maple-yellow birch-black ash. Lake Michigan bluffs, fields, thickets, sandspits, roadsides, along railroads, gravel pits, lake dunes and lakeshores, talus slopes, clay bluffs, cliffs, dry to mesic prairies, rock outcrops, rocky river flats, pine barrens, oak barrens, forested dunes, pine relicts, meadows, sandblows. Found across most of the state but seemingly more common northward and along Lake Michigan.
Floristic Rating: Coefficient of Conservatism = 4, Wetland Indicator = FACU-* USDA Plants Database: Federal Distribution and detailed information including photos University of Wisconsin - Green Bay: Trees: Photos, descriptions, information Virginia Tech Dept. of Forestry, College of Natural Resources: detailed description and photographs
Matthew L. Wagner
Matthew L. Wagner
Know Your Trees
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Janice Stiefel
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