Prunus americana Marshall (Q4454)

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Prunus americana is a taxon with the rank species within the genus Prunus
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Prunus americana Marshall
Prunus americana is a taxon with the rank species within the genus Prunus

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    taxon/id/Prunus americana Marshall
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    Prunus americana Marshall
    Prunus americana
    Marshall
    FNA Editorial Committee. 2014. Flora of North America north of Mexico. Volume 9: Magnoliophyta: Picramniaceae to Rosaceae. Oxford University Press, New York.
    accepted
    prunier d'Amérique (French)
    American plum (English)
    wild plum (English)
    wild red plum (English)
    wild yellow plum (English)
    American red plum (English)
    American wild plum (English)
    goose plum (English)
    Wild or American plum (English)
    prunier d'Amérique (English)
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    Harms, V.L. 2006. Annotated catalogue of Saskatchewan vascular plants. http://www.biodiversity.sk.ca/Docs/AnnotatedCatalogueSKVascPlants2006.pdf
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    Newmaster, S.G., A. Lehela, M.J. Oldham, P.W.C. Uhlig & S. McMurray. 1998. Ontario Plant List. Ontario Forest Research Institute, Sault Ste. Marie, Ontario. Forest Information Paper No. 123. 550 pp.
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    Marie-Victorin, Fr. 1995. Flore laurentienne. 3e éd. Mise à jour et annotée par L. Brouillet, S.G. Hay, I. Goulet, M. Blondeau, J. Cayouette et J. Labrecque. Gaétan Morin éditeur. 1093 pp.
    1 reference
    FNA Editorial Committee. 2014. Flora of North America north of Mexico. Volume 9: Magnoliophyta: Picramniaceae to Rosaceae. Oxford University Press, New York. http://www.efloras.org/volume_page.aspx?volume_id=1009&flora_id=1
    Flowering Apr–Jun; fruiting Jul–Sep.
    thickets
    moist soil
    roadsides
    fence rows
    margins
    stream banks
    10–2100 m
    Shrubs or trees, suckering, 15–80 dm, moderately thorny.
    Twigs with axillary end buds, usually hairy, sometimes glabrous.
    petiole 4–19 mm, usually hairy on adaxial surface, sometimes on both surfaces, rarely glabrous, usually eglandular, sometimes glandular distally, glands 1–2, discoid;
    blade usually elliptic, broadly elliptic, or obovate, rarely ovate, 5–11 × 2–5.5 cm, base usually cuneate to obtuse, sometimes rounded, margins coarsely, doubly serrate, teeth sharp, eglandular, apex usually abruptly acuminate, rarely acute, surfaces glabrous or sparsely hairy along main veins.
    Inflorescences 2–5-flowered, umbellate fascicles.
    Pedicels (4–) 8–20 mm, usually glabrous, sometimes hairy.
    Flowers blooming before or at leaf emergence;
    hypanthium obconic, 2.5–5 mm, usually glabrous, sometimes hairy, externally;
    sepals broadly spreading to reflexed, ovate to lanceolate, 2–3.5 (–5) mm, margins entire or irregularly or obscurely glandular-toothed, sometimes 2-fid at apices, ciliate, abaxial surface glabrous or hairy, adaxial tomentose;
    petals white, oval to oblong-obovate, 7–12 mm;
    ovaries glabrous.
    Drupes red, orange, or yellowish, glaucous, subglobose to ellipsoid, 15–30 mm, glabrous;
    mesocarps fleshy;