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Prunus mahaleb Linnaeus. Mahaleb Cherry. 



Range. — Europe. Escaped from cultivation and running wild from Ontario 

 to eastern Pennsylvania; eastern Kansas. 



NAMES IN USE 



Mahaleb Cherry. St. Lucie Cherry (lit.). 



Perfume Cherry. 



Prunus avium Linnseus. Sweet Cherry. 



Range. — Europe. Escaped from cultivation and running wild in various 

 localities in eastern United States. 



NAMES IN USE 



Sweet Cherry. Gean (lit.). 



English Cherrv. Mazzard (lit.). 



Crab Cherry (lit.). 



Prunus virginiana Linnaeus. 78 Choke Cherry. 



Range. — From Newfoundland to Labrador and Hudson Bay region south to 

 North Carolina (Buncombe and Iredell Counties); northern Kentucky; west 

 to Saskatchewan, eastern North Dakota and South Dakota, eastern Nebraska, 

 northern Missouri, and northern Kansas. 



NAMES in use 



Choke Cherry (Mich., Wis., Iowa). Common Chokecherry (lit.). 



Wild Cherry. 



VARIETIES DISTINGUISHED IN CULTIVATION 



Prunus virginiana leucocarpa Watson. White Choke Cherry. 



Prunus virginiana pendens Sudworth. Weeping Choke Cherry. 



Prunus virginiana nana (Du Roi) Dippel. Dwarf Choke Cherry. 



Prunus virginiana demissa (Nuttall) Torrey. Western Choke Cherry. 



Range. — From western Nebraska and Kansas westward, throughout the 

 mountains of western United States and northward to northern British Columbia. 



Note on nomenclature. — Formerly designated as Prunus demissa (Nuttall) 

 Walpers. 



NAMES in use 



Wild Cherry (Calif., N. Mex., Utah, California Cherry (Calif.). 



Idaho, Mont., Oreg.). Western Choke Cherry (lit.). 



Choke Cherry (Calif., Nev., Idaho, Columbian Wild Cherrv (lit.). 



Utah). 



Prunus virginiana melanocarpa (A. Nelson) Sargent. 77 



Western Choke Cherry. 



Range. — Western Dakotas and Nebraska to southern Colorado, New Mexico, 

 and southern Arizona to the Pacific Coast, where it ranges from southern Cali- 

 fornia to British Columbia. 



NAMES IN USE 



Black Western Chokecherry (lit.). Western Choke Cherry. 



78 In dry poor soils the Choke Cherry is always shrubby, becoming arborescent only in rich moist soils 

 in the vicinity of streams and springs. 



7 " This, the Prunus demissa melanocarpa of A. Nelson, is treated by some authors as a distinct species 

 (Coulter and Nelson, New Man. Bot. Cent. Rky. Mts., 270, 1906: Britton and Shafer, North Am. Trees, 

 604, 1908; Rydberg, Flor. Rky. Mts. and Adj. PL, 452, 1917). 





