Taxon: Prunus angustifolia Marshall

Common names:

• Cherokee plum   (Source: Mansf Ency ) – English
  
• Chickasaw plum   (Source: World Econ Pl ) – English
  
• Florida sand plum   (Source: Mansf Ency ) – English
  
• mountain cherry   (Source: Mansf Ency ) – English
  
• sand plum   (Source: Websters Dict [as Prunus angustifolia var. watsonii]) – English
  
• sandhill plum   (Source: F GPlains ) – English
  
• Chicasapflaume   (Source: Zander ed14 ) – German
  
• chickasawplommon   (Source: Vara kulturvaxt namn ) – Swedish
  

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see MMPND for additional names in foreign scripts

Economic importance:

• Environmental: ornamental   (fide Dict Gard; Krussmann)
  
• Human food: fruit   (for making jams & jellies fide Food Feed Crops US)
  
• Gene sources: potential as graft stock for plum   (fide Can J Pl Sci 56:185. 1976)
  
• Gene sources: secondary genetic relative of Japanese plum   (based on crosses with Prunus salicina fide Breed Pl Tree Crops 175. 2009)
  

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View ethnobotanical data from Moerman's Native American Ethnobotany Database

Distributional range:

• NORTHERN AMERICA (Check conservation status in U.S. & Canada in NatureServe Explorer database)
  Northeastern U.S.A.: United States - Indiana, New Jersey, Pennsylvania, West Virginia
  North-Central U.S.A.: United States - Illinois, Kansas, Missouri, Nebraska [s.], Oklahoma
  Northwestern U.S.A.: United States - Colorado [s.e.]
  Southeastern U.S.A.: United States - Alabama, Arkansas, Delaware, Florida, Georgia, Kentucky, Louisiana, Maryland, South Carolina, Tennessee, Virginia
  South-Central U.S.A.: United States - New Mexico [e.], Texas

• naturalized elsewhere

• also cultivated

References:

• Aldén, B., S. Ryman & M. Hjertson. 2009. Våra kulturväxters namn - ursprung och användning. Formas, Stockholm (Handbook on Swedish cultivated and utility plants, their names and origin).
• Bortiri, E. et al. 2006. Phylogenetic analysis of morphology in Prunus reveals extensive homoplasy. Pl. Syst. Evol. 259:53–71.
• Correll, D. S. & M. C. Johnston. 1970. Manual of the vascular plants of Texas.
• Diggs, G. M., Jr. et al. 2006–. Illustrated flora of East Texas.
• Encke, F. et al. 1984. Zander: Handwörterbuch der Pflanzennamen, 13. Auflage.
• Encke, F. et al. 1993. Zander: Handwörterbuch der Pflanzennamen, 14. Auflage.
• Facciola, S. 1990. Cornucopia, a source book of edible plants.
• Gleason, H. A. & A. Cronquist. 1963. Manual of vascular plants of northeastern United States and adjacent Canada.
• Hanelt, P., ed. 2001. Mansfeld's encyclopedia of agricultural and horticultural crops. Volumes 1-6. 1:515–516.
• Hartmann, W. & M. Neumüller. 2009. Plum breeding. In: Jain, S. M. & P.M. Priyadarshan, eds., Breeding plantation tree crops: temperate species. 161–231. [this review mentioned that Prunus angustifolia "was successfully crossed with Japanese plum resulting in cultivars."].
• Helton, A. W. 1976. Effects of selected rootstoks on growth and productivity of two cultivars of Prunus domestica. Canad. J. Pl. Sci. 56:185–191.
• Huxley, A., ed. 1992. The new Royal Horticultural Society dictionary of gardening.
• IPGRI. New World Fruits Database (on-line resource).
• Jones, G. N. & G. D. Fuller. 1955. Vascular plants of Illinois.
• Kartesz, J. T. 1994. A synonymized checklist of the vascular flora of the United States, Canada, and Greenland. [with two varieties].
• Krüssmann, G. 1984. Manual of cultivated broad-leaved trees and shrubs (English translation of Handbuch der Laubgehölze. 1976).
• Lee, S. & J. Wen. 2001. A phylogenetic analysis of Prunus and the Amygdaloideae (Rosaceae) using ITS sequences of nuclear ribosomal DNA. Amer. J. Bot. 88:150–160.
• Liberty Hyde Bailey Hortorium. 1976. Hortus third.
• Little, E. L., Jr. 1979. Checklist of United States trees, Agric. Handb. 541.
• Markle, G. M. et al., eds. 1998. Food and feed crops of the United States, ed. 2.
• Martin, W. C. & C. R. Hutchins. 1980. A flora of New Mexico.
• McGregor, R. L. et al. (The Great Plains Flora Association). 1986. Flora of the Great Plains.
• Mowrey, B. D. & D. J. Werner. 1990. Phylogenetic relationships among species of Prunus as inferred by isozyme markers. Theor. Appl. Genet. 80:129–133.
• Porcher, M. H. et al. Searchable World Wide Web Multilingual Multiscript Plant Name Database (MMPND) (on-line resource).
• Radford, A. E. et al. 1964. Manual of the vascular flora of the Carolinas.
• Rohrer, J. R. 2011. Prunus (Rosaceae). In: FNA Editorial Committee, Flora of North America. 9: in press.
• Shaw, J. & R. L. Small. 2004. Addressing the "hardest puzzle in American pomology:" Phylogeny of Prunus sect. Prunocerasus (Rosaceae) based on seven noncoding chloroplast DNA regions. Amer. J. Bot. 91:985–996.
• Shaw, J. & R. L. Small. 2005. Chloroplast DNA phylogeny and phylogeography of the North American plums (Prunus subgenus Prunus section Prunocerasus, Rosaceae). Amer. J. Bot. 92:2011–2030.
• Steyermark, J. A. 1977. Flora of Missouri.
• Wunderlin, R. & B. Hansen. Atlas of Florida vascular plants (on-line resource).

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Search AGRICOLA article citation database for citations referencing Prunus angustifolia.

Search NCBI's Entrez search engine for PubMed citations referencing Prunus angustifolia.

Search Biodiversity Heritage Library for historical publications referencing Prunus angustifolia.

Synonyms:

• (≡) Prunus angustifolia var. angustifolia
  
• (=) Prunus angustifolia var. watsonii (Sarg.) Waugh
  
• (=) Prunus watsonii Sarg.
  

Check other web resources for Prunus angustifolia Marshall:

• Flora of North America: Collaborative Floristic Effort of North American Botanists
• PLANTS: USDA-NRCS Database of Plants of the United States and its Territories
• BONAP: North American Plant Atlas of the Biota of North America Program
• New World Fruits Database: Online database from Bioversity International
• TROPICOS: Nomenclatural and Specimen Database of the Missouri Botanical Garden
• Mansfeld: Mansfeld's World Database of Agricultural and Horticultural Crops
• ICRA: International Cultivar Registration Authority (on-line resource). for Prunus angustifolia cultivars
• ePIC: Electronic Plant Information Centre of Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew
• AGRICOLA: Article Citation Database or NAL Catalog of USDA's National Agricultural Library
• Entrez: NCBI's search engine for PubMed citations, GenBank sequences, etc.

Images:

• Stone: U.S. National Seed Herbarium image

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• Images Note: Be advised that their identity may be inaccurate. Proper identification of a plant may require specialized taxonomic knowledge or comparison with properly documented herbarium material.

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