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Prunus pumila
About
Prunus pumila, commonly called sand cherry, is a North American species of cherry in the rose family. It is widespread in eastern and central Canada from New Brunswick west to Saskatchewan and the northern United States from Maine to Montana, south as far as Colorado, Kansas, Indiana, and Virginia, with a few isolated populations in Tennessee and Utah. It grows in sandy locations such as shorelines and dunes.
- Family
- Rosaceae
Ecology
How it lives
- Propagated by
- Seed
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- Name
- Prunus pumila
- Slug
- prunus-pumila
- Kingdom
- Plantae
- Family
- Rosaceae
- Genus
- Prunus
- Species
- pumila
- Wikidata QID
- Q1249454
- Propagule type
- seed
- Container suitable
- No
- Indoor suitable
- No
- OSSI pledged
- No
- Hazard level
- 1
- Data completeness
- 43
Generated sections & citations
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