Prunus maritima Marshall (Q4462)

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

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    Prunus maritima Marshall
    Prunus maritima
    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 des grèves (French)
    Graves' beach plum (English)
    shore plum (English)
    beach plum (English)
    Beach plum (English)
    Flowering Apr–Jun; fruiting Aug–Oct.
    sand dunes
    beaches
    sandy fields
    roadsides
    coastal barrens
    0–30 m
    Shrubs, suckering, 10–25 dm, not thorny.
    Twigs with axillary end buds, densely hairy to glabrate.
    petiole 3–11 mm, usually densely hairy, rarely hairy only on adaxial surface, usually eglandular, sometimes glandular distally, glands 1–2, discoid;
    blade elliptic, broadly elliptic, or obovate (orbiculate in gravesii clone), 3.5–7 × 2–4 cm, base cuneate to obtuse (rounded in gravesii clone), margins finely, usually singly, rarely doubly, serrulate, teeth sharp, usually eglandular, rarely glandular, apex acute to obtuse (rounded in gravesii clone), abaxial surface usually hairy, sometimes only on veins or glabrescent, adaxial rugose, glabrous.
    Inflorescences 2–4-flowered, umbellate fascicles.
    Pedicels 5–15 mm, hairy.
    Flowers blooming before leaf emergence;
    hypanthium campanulate, 2.5–3.5 mm, hairy externally;
    sepals erect to spreading, ovate, 1.5–3.5 mm, margins entire, sometimes 2-fid at apices, ciliate, surfaces hairy;
    petals white, oblong-obovate, 3–8 mm;
    ovaries glabrous.
    Drupes red, yellow, dark blue, or purplish black, glaucous, globose, 11–18 mm, glabrous;
    mesocarps fleshy;