Prunus serotina Ehrh.

• Region

  North America

• Country

  United States of America

• State/Province

  Wisconsin

• County/Municipio

  Richland Co.

• Locality

  3 miles SE of center of Richland Center.

• Elevation

  Alt. 231 m. (758 ft.)

• Coordinates

  43.3081, -90.3308

• Distribution

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BOTANICAL
Spontaneous in narrow row of trees between farm fields, in
former cattle lane, with large Robinia pseudoacacia
(remants of planting in 1930s for efosion control), and a few
spontaneous Quercus macrocarpa, Carya ovata, Juglans
nigra, and ground cover of dense Ambrosia trifida. Bottom
of small valley without permanent stream.
Tree 18 m. tall, 43 cm. in diameter. Voucher for wood
specimen, MADw. Inflorescences abundant throughout the
canopy, on shoots with smaller and relatively wider leaves
than the often navicular larger leaves on the distal
vegetative part of the twigs; each raceme with many fewer
fruits than there were flowers; fruit green, some reddish on
insolated side, especially those high in the canopy.
Coll.: M. Nee 61374
23 July 2014
Missouri Botanical Garden (MO)
Ü.S.A.
Rosaceae Prunus serotina Ehrh.
det. M.Nee, 2014
WISCONSIN, Richland Co., 3 miles SE of center of
Richland Center.
43°18’29”N, 90°19’51”W. alt. 231 m.
T 10 N; R 1 E; NE%NE'/4 sect. 35.
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