Black Cherry
Scientific Name:Prunus serotina
Common Name Synonyms: Wild Black Cherry


NOTES: Dark gray to black bark resembles burnt corn flakes. Bark on young trees and smaller branches is dark, smooth, and shiny with horizontal lenticels.

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Black Cherry
Genus species: Prunus serotina
Common Names: Black Cherry
Wild Black Cherry
Family Name: Rosaceae  
Annual or perennial herbs, woody vines, shrubs, and trees; leaves mostly alternate, simple to compound, usually conspicuously stipulate; flowers mostly bisexual, regular; fruit types vary.
Seed Type: Angiosperm
Origin:  
Native: native to North America.
Non-native: not native to North America.
Introduced Native: native to North
America, but not Rowe Woods.
* Definitions based on the USDA
terminology
Native
Category:Tree
Flower Color:White
CNC Habitat: Krippendorf Arboretum
Nature Playscape
Identified by:A. Swanson
Months in Bloom:  
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