Prunus mahaleb L.
Detail
- Family
- Rosaceae
- Botanical Name
- Prunus mahaleb L.
- Common Name
- Mahaleb Cherry, Rock Cherry, Perfumed Cherry
- Synonym(s)
- Flora of Virginia Name/Status
- Prunus mahaleb L.
- Comments
- This European introduction seems quite at home and potentially invasive on the xeric ledges of carbonate-rock cliffs of the Ridge and Valley province.
- Habitat
- Naturalized species of dry rocky woodlands, cliffs, and outcrops over limestone, dolomite, and perhaps other calcareous rocks; also around old homesites and in weedy fencerow thickets. Infrequent (sometimes locally abundant) in the mountains; rare in the Piedmont.
- Native Status
- Introduced
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