Chokecherry
Prunus virginiana L.
- light
- Full sun
- water
- Medium
- tall
- 7.6 m
- wide
- 6.6 m
Rosaceae
Also called Choke cherry, Common chokecherry
Formerly Cerasus virginiana, Padus virginiana
When it flowers
Not known yet in the tropics: too few flowering observations to read a season from.
Read from iNaturalist photographs of it in flower. A month counts at 50% of the best month's flowering share (smoothed over three months) and 10% of its flowering count, from at least 100 flowering observations in the band.
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Something wrong with it?About it
- Grows as
- TreeKew's checklist, not yet checked
- Wild in
- N. America to Mexico (N. Baja California)Kew's checklist, not yet checked
- Light
- Full sun (6 h or more)Read from NC State Extension, one source
- Height
- 6.1 m to 9.1 mRead from NC State Extension, one source
- Spread
- 5.5 m to 7.6 mRead from NC State Extension, one source
- Water
- Average: moist, well drainedRead from NC State Extension, one source
- Flowers
- WhiteRead from NC State Extension, one source
- Coldest it survives
- -45.6 °C (USDA zone 2a)Read from NC State Extension, one source
Not known yet: climate, heat, hottest it survives.
In other languages (12)
- root
- PRUVIR, elocapōlin, xitomacapōlin
- French
- cerisier de Virginie
- Portuguese
- cereja-da-virgínia
- Czech
- střemcha viržinská
- Dutch
- Virginische vogelkers
- Estonian
- virgiinia toomingas
- Russian
- Черёмуха виргинская
- Finnish
- virginiantuomi
- German
- Virginische Traubenkirsche
- Slovak
- čremcha červená
- Swedish
- virginiahägg
- Lithuanian
- Virgininė ieva
Where this comes from
- iNaturalist, read 2026-10-25, CC0-1.0 (observation counts)
- Wikidata, read 2026-10-25, CC0-1.0
- Kew's checklist, read 2026-10-24, CC-BY-4.0
- NC State Extension, read 2026-10-25, fact, cited
- Wikimedia Commons, read 2026-10-25, Public domain
- iNaturalist, read 2026-10-25, CC BY-SA
- iNaturalist, read 2026-10-25, CC BY
- iNaturalist, read 2026-10-25, CC BY
- 3D model: Prunus virginiana (built for Vanagrha) by Vanagrha, own
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