Prunus, Wild Black Cherry

$24.97

Prunus serotina
Also known as: Wild Black Cherry, Rum Cherry, Mountain Black Cherry

Description

Prunus serotina
Also known as: Black Cherry, Rum Cherry, Mountain Black Cherry


A smorgasbord for wildlife, highly valuable food and nectar source. Deciduous cherry tree with attractive white flowers dangling, lace like blooms emerging after leaves in spring.

Attracting beneficial insects: native bees, bumble bees, and honey bees.

Birds:
Brown thrashers, American robins, Vireos blue jays, mockingbirds, eastern bluebirds, northern cardinals, woodpeckers, grosbeaks, sparrows, European starlings, gray catbirds, willow flycatchers, common crow, waxwings, and thrushes.

Animals:
Red foxes, raccoons, opossum, squirrels, rabbits and bears. Also important food source for wild turkeys, northern bobwhites, sharp tailed grouse, ruffed grouse. The leaves and twigs are eaten by white tail deer.

Companion Plants:
Sassafras, Red Maple, Sugar Maple, Tulip Yellow Poplar, American Elm, American Hornbeam, American Holly, Loblolly Pine, Eastern White Pine, Oaks, Hickories.


Yearly Foliage: Deciduous


Hardiness Zone: 4-9


Light: Sun, partial shade, shade


Mature Growth: 80 feet tall


Soil: Average, well drained, moist, dry, neutral to acidic.


Blooms: Spring


Wildlife: Nectar-insects, Nectar-butterflies, Nectar-bees


Larval Host Plant for: Viceroy, Eastern Swallowtail, Red Spotted Purple, Painted Lady, Cherry Gall Azure, Columbia Silkmoth, Promethea moth, Small­eyed Sphinx moth, Wild Cherry Sphinx moth, Spotted apatelodes, Band Tussock moth, Band edged prominent, New England Buck moth.


Plant Size when available: BARE ROOTED, 1 GALLON, 3 GALLON


 

Additional information

Weight 7 lbs
Size

1 Gallon, 2 Gallon, 3 Gallon, Bare Root Seedlings