Prunus serotina / Black Cherry

$20.00

Black cherry is a fast-growing native tree of field edges and a member of mature forest communities in some regions. It is a prolific fruiter, feeding many songbirds, and has exceptional value as a host plant for butterfly and moth species. The bark of black cherry is traditionally processed into a flavoring and as a therapeutic agent in certain coughs, hence black cherry soda and black cherry cough drops. The fruit is also edible, and tastes especially good when sun-dried.

Height: 30 – 80′  Blooms: May

Habitat: Dry to average, sun to part shade

Deer Resistance: Medium

Provenance: NJ

 

Description

BONAP 2022 Prunus maritima Native Range Map

Larval Host Plant (butterflies):
Coral Hairstreak
Eastern Tiger Swallowtail
Red Spotted Purple
Striped Hairstreak

Larval Host Plant (moths):

Alternate Woodling
Bent-line Gray
Black-blotched Schizura
Black-Waved Flannel Caterpillar
Blinded Sphinx
Bold-based Zale
Canadian Melanolophia
Cecropia Moth
Checkered-fringe Prominent
Cherry Dagger
Clear Dagger
Cleft-headed Looper
Common Idia
Common Metarranthis
Confused Woodgrain
Copper Underwing
Crocus Geometer
Dot-lined White
Dotted Gray
Doubled-Lined Gray
Dowdy Pinion
Early Button Slug
Elegant Tailed Slug
Fall Webworm
Filament Bearer
Fluid Arches
Fringed Looper
Giant Leopard Moth
Gray Dagger
Great Tiger Moth
Harris’ Three-spot
Hickory Horned Devil
Interrupted Dagger
Intractable Quaker
Io Moth
Lappet
Large Maple Spanworm
Large Tolype
Linden Looper
Lunate Zale
Monkey Slug
Norman’s Quaker
Oak Beauty
One-Spotted Variant
Pale Green Pinion
Pin-striped Vermilion Slug
Purpled-crested Slug
Purplish-brown Looper
Radcliffe’s Dagger
Red-crossed Button Slug
Red-winged Sallow
Royal Walnut Moth
Ruby Quaker
Smaller Parasa
Rusty Tussock
Saddleback Looper
Shivering Pinion
Skiff Moth
Small-eyed Sphinx
Speckled Green Fruit Worm
Spiny Oak Slug
Splendid Dagger
Spotted Apatelodes
Spotted Tussock
Stinging Rose Caterpillar
Streaked Tussock
The Bruce Spanworm
Tufted Bird-dropping Moth
Ultronia Underwing
Unicorn Caterpillar
Variable Antepione
White Furcula
White Slant-line
White Spring Moth
White-dotted Prominent
White-marked Tussock
Wooly Gray
Yellow-Haired Dagger Moth
Yellow-shouldered Slug

Additional information

Size

Gallon