Taxon: Prunus pensylvanica L. f.

Common names:

• bird cherry   (Source: Zander ed17 ) – English
  
• fire cherry   (Source: Trees US ) – English
  
• pin cherry   (Source: World Econ Pl ) – English
  
• red cherry   (Source: Zander ed17 ) – English
  
• Feuerkirsche   (Source: Zander ed17 ) – German
  
• amerikanskt häggkörsbär   (Source: Vara kulturvaxt namn ) – Swedish
  

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see MMPND for additional names in foreign scripts

Economic importance:

• Environmental: ornamental   (fide Krussmann)
  
• Gene sources: graft stock relative for sour cherry   (fide Acta Hort 190:141. 1990)
  
• Vertebrate poisons: mammals   (fide Kingsbury)
  

More:

View toxicology references for Prunus pensylvanica from FDA Poisonous Plant Database

View phytochemical or ethnobotanical data from Duke's Phytochemical and Ethnobotanical Databases

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)
  Subarctic America: Canada - Northwest Territory [s.w.]
  Eastern Canada: Canada - New Brunswick, Newfoundland, Nova Scotia, Ontario, Prince Edward Island, Quebec
  Western Canada: Canada - Alberta, British Columbia [e.], Manitoba, Saskatchewan
  Northeastern U.S.A.: United States - Connecticut, Indiana [n.], Maine, Massachusetts, Michigan, New Hampshire, New Jersey, New York, Pennsylvania, Rhode Island, Vermont, West Virginia
  North-Central U.S.A.: United States - Illinois, Iowa, Minnesota, North Dakota, South Dakota, Wisconsin
  Northwestern U.S.A.: United States - Colorado, Montana
  Southeastern U.S.A.: United States - Georgia [n.], Maryland [w.], North Carolina [w.], Tennessee, Virginia

• 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).
• Encke, F. et al. 1984. Zander: Handwörterbuch der Pflanzennamen, 13. Auflage.
• Encke, F. et al. 1993. Zander: Handwörterbuch der Pflanzennamen, 14. Auflage.
• Erhardt, W. et al. 2002. Zander: Handwörterbuch der Pflanzennamen, 17. Auflage.
• Gleason, H. A. & A. Cronquist. 1963. Manual of vascular plants of northeastern United States and adjacent Canada.
• Harrington, H. 1954. Manual of the plants of Colorado.
• Hitchcock, C. L. et al. 1955–1969. Vascular plants of the Pacific Northwest.
• Iezzoni, A. et al. 1990. Cherries (Prunus). Acta Hort. 190:111–173.
• 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].
• Kingsbury, J. M. 1964. Poisonous plants of the United States and Canada.
• Krüssmann, G. 1984. Manual of cultivated broad-leaved trees and shrubs (English translation of Handbuch der Laubgehölze. 1976).
• Liberty Hyde Bailey Hortorium. 1976. Hortus third.
• Little, E. L., Jr. 1979. Checklist of United States trees, Agric. Handb. 541.
• McGregor, R. L. et al. (The Great Plains Flora Association). 1986. Flora of the Great Plains.
• Moss, E. H. & J. G. Packer. 1983. Flora of Alberta, ed. 2.
• Munro, D. B. Canadian poisonous plants information system (on-line resource).
• Porcher, M. H. et al. Searchable World Wide Web Multilingual Multiscript Plant Name Database (MMPND) (on-line resource).
• Porsild, A. E. & W. J. Cody. 1980. Vascular plants of continental Northwest Territories, Canada.
• 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.
• Scoggan, H. J. 1978–1979. The flora of Canada, 4 vol.

More:

Search AGRICOLA article citation database for citations referencing Prunus pensylvanica.

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

Search Biodiversity Heritage Library for historical publications referencing Prunus pensylvanica.

Synonyms:

• (≡) Cerasus pensylvanica (L. f.) Loisel.
  

Check other web resources for Prunus pensylvanica L. f.:

• 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
• TROPICOS: Nomenclatural and Specimen Database of the Missouri Botanical Garden
• ICRA: International Cultivar Registration Authority (on-line resource). for Prunus pensylvanica 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.

Check other web resources for images:

• PlantSystematics.org
• 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.

Abbreviations & symbols in GRIN Taxonomy

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