Prunus pensylvanica

SPECIES

1. KingdomPlantae
2. PhylumTracheophyta
3. ClassMagnoliopsida
4. OrderRosales
5. FamilyRosaceae

Native toAlberta, British Columbia, Colorado, Connecticut, Georgia, Illinois, Indiana, Iowa, Labrador, Maine, Manitoba, Maryland

Observations recorded13,926

Pin cherry, in pure stands or as a majority of the stocking, is the forest cover type Pin Cherry (Society of American Foresters Type 17) (14). It is frequently associated with quaking aspen and bigtooth aspen (Populus tremuloides and P. grandidentata) paper birch and yellow birch (Betula papyrifera and B. alleghaniensis), striped maple, red maple, and sugar maple (Acer pensylvanicum, A. rubrum, and A. saccharum), American beech (Fagus grandifolia), northern red oak (Quercus rubra), balsam fir (Abies balsamea), and red spruce (Picea rubens). Fraser fir (Abies fraseri) and American mountain-ash (Sorbus americana) are additional associates in the southern Appalachians. Chokecherry and black cherry (Prunus virginiana and R serotina) are common associates in the Lake States. Pin cherry is a component of the following forest cover types: 16 Aspen 17 Pin Cherry 18 Paper Birch 19 Gray Birch-Red Maple 20 White Pine-Northern Red Oak-Red Maple 21 Eastern White Pine 25 Sugar Maple-Beech-Yellow Birch 28 Black Cherry-Maple 32 Red Spruce 34 Red Spruce-Fraser Fir 60 Beech-Sugar Maple 108 Red Maple In addition to the understory tree species in pin cherry stands, numerous shrubs and forbs occur, inc