      
Taxon: Prunus virginiana L.
Genus: Prunus subgenus: Cerasus section: Laurocerasus
Family: Rosaceae subfamily: Amygdaloideae tribe: Amygdaleae.
Nomen number: 30151
Place of publication: Sp. pl. 1:473. 1753, nom. cons. prop.
Typification: View record from Linnaean Plant Name Typification Project
of the Natural History Museum of London.
Comments:- a pending conservation proposal will preserve its current usage
- proposed for conservation (nom. cons. prop.) with a conserved type (Melbourne ICN Art. 14.9)
Name verified on: 20-May-1992 by ARS Systematic Botanists. Last updated: 21-May-2013
Species priority site is: Natl. Germplasm Repository - Davis (DAV).
Accessions:
8 in National Plant Germplasm System.
Check PlantSearch
database of Botanic Gardens
Conservation International for possible non-NPGS germplasm.
See also subordinate taxa:
- bitter-berry (Source: CRC MedHerbs ed2
) – English
- black chokecherry (Source: Trees US
) – English [Prunus virginiana var. demissa]
- chokecherry (Source: World Econ Pl
) – English
- Virginia bird cherry (Source: Zander Ency
) – English
- western chokecherry (Source: F NAmer
) – English [Prunus virginiana var. demissa]
- cerisier de Virginie (Source: Dict Rehm
) – French
- virginischer Traubenkirschbaum (Source: Dict Rehm
) – German
- cerezo de Virginia (Source: Dict Rehm
) – Spanish
- virginiahägg (Source: Vara kulturvaxt namn
) – Swedish
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Native: (links to
other web resources are provided for some distributions)
- 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, Quebec [s.]
Western Canada: Canada - Alberta, British Columbia, Manitoba, Saskatchewan
Northeastern U.S.A.: United States - Connecticut, Indiana, Maine, Massachusetts, Michigan, New Hampshire, New Jersey, New York, Ohio, Pennsylvania, Rhode Island, Vermont
North-Central U.S.A.: United States - Illinois, Iowa, Kansas, Minnesota, Missouri, Nebraska, North Dakota, Oklahoma, South Dakota, Wisconsin
Northwestern U.S.A.: United States - Colorado, Idaho, Montana, Oregon, Washington, Wyoming
Southeastern U.S.A.: United States - Kentucky, Maryland, North Carolina [w.], Tennessee, Virginia
South-Central U.S.A.: United States - New Mexico, Texas
Southwestern U.S.A.: United States - Arizona, California, Nevada, Utah
- 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).
- Aradhya, M. K. et al.
2004. Molecular characterization of variability and relationships among seven cultivated and selected wild species of Prunus L. using amplified fragment length polymorphism.
Sci. Hort.
103:131–144.
- Bortiri, E. et al.
2001. Phylogeny and systematics of Prunus (Rosaceae) as determined by sequence analysis of ITS and the chloroplast trnL-trnF spacer DNA.
Syst. Bot.
26:797–807. [this study recognized this species as a member of subgenus Padus].
- Bortiri, E. et al.
2006. Phylogenetic analysis of morphology in Prunus reveals extensive homoplasy.
Pl. Syst. Evol.
259:53–71. [this study confirmed that Prunus virginiana is closer to members of Laurocerasus].
- Cooper, M. R. & A. W. Johnson.
1998. Poisonous plants and fungi in Britain: animal and human poisoning.
[poisonous].
- Correll, D. S. & M. C. Johnston.
1970. Manual of the vascular plants of Texas.
- Cronquist, A. et al.
1972–. Intermountain flora.
- Duke, J. A. et al.
2002. CRC Handbook of medicinal herbs.
- Erhardt, W. et al.
2008. Der große Zander: Enzyklopädie der Pflanzennamen.
- Gandhi, K. N. et al.
2009. (1886-1887) Proposals to conserve the names Prunus serotina and P. virginiana (Rosaceae) with conserved types.
Taxon
58:312–314.
- Gilbert, L.
1998. pers. comm.
[re. common names, as P. virginiana melanocarpa].
- Gleason, H. A. & A. Cronquist.
1963. Manual of vascular plants of northeastern United States and adjacent Canada.
- Hancock, J. F. et al.
2008. Chapter 9. Peaches.
In: Hancock, J. F., ed., Temperate fruit crop breeding: germplasm to genomics.
265–298. [this review cited Prunus virginiana among those species "that have been hybridized with P. persica"].
- Hitchcock, C. L. et al.
1955–1969. Vascular plants of the Pacific Northwest.
- IPGRI.
New World Fruits Database (on-line resource).
- Iezzoni, A. et al.
1990. Cherries (Prunus).
Acta Hort.
190:111–173. [this review cited Prunus virginiana as one of the species tested for its frost resistance trait for sour cherry].
- Kalinina, A. et al.
2007. Susceptibility of ornamental Prunus to plum pox potyvirus infection.
Acta Hort.
738:601–605. [this study tested an ornamental cultivar of Prunus virginiana that was found to be partially resistant to the virus].
- Kartesz, J. T.
1994. A synonymized checklist of the vascular flora of the United States, Canada, and Greenland.
[with three varieties].
- Kearney, T. H. & R. H. Peebles.
1969. Arizona flora, ed. 2.
- Kingsbury, J. M.
1964. Poisonous plants of the United States and Canada.
[poisonous].
- Liberty Hyde Bailey Hortorium.
1976. Hortus third.
- Little, E. L., Jr.
1978. Important forest trees of the United States.
- Little, E. L., Jr.
1979. Checklist of United States trees, Agric. Handb. 541.
- Martin, W. C. & C. R. Hutchins.
1980. A flora of New Mexico.
- McGuffin, M., J. T. Kartesz, A. Y. Leung, & A. O. Tucker.
2000. Herbs of commerce, ed. 2.
- 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.
- Rehm, S.
1994. Multilingual dictionary of agronomic plants.
- 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.
- Steyermark, J. A.
1977. Flora of Missouri.
- Tutin, T. G. et al., eds.
1964–1980. Flora europaea.
- Walters, S. M. et al., eds.
1986–. European garden flora.
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Synonyms:
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Images:
- More:
- Check PlantSystematics.org for additional images
-
 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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Germplasm Resources Information Network - (GRIN) [Online Database].
National Germplasm Resources Laboratory, Beltsville,
Maryland.
URL: http://www.ars-grin.gov/cgi-bin/npgs/html/taxon.pl?30151 (23 May 2013)
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