Taxon: Prunus fruticosa Pall. Genus: Prunus Subgenus: Cerasus Section: Cerasus
Family: Rosaceae.
Nomen number: 29899.
Place of publication: Fl. ross. 1(1):19, t. 8, fig. B. 1784.
Name verified on: 01-Nov-1985 by Systematic Botany Laboratory. Last updated: 25-Feb-2009.
Species priority site is: Plant Gene Resources of Canada (PGRC). 4 accessions (by country).


See also subordinate taxa:

• Prunus fruticosa f. pendula (No Accessions)

See other conspecific taxa:

• Prunus fruticosa f. pendula (No accessions)

Common names:

• European dwarf cherry (Source: Hortus 3 )
  
• European ground cherry (Source: Hortus 3 )
  
• ground cherry (Source: L. Gilbert, p.c.)
  
• Mongolian cherry (Source: NRCS Cons Pl Mat)
  
• steppe cherry (Source: World Econ Pl )
  
• cao yuan ying tao (Source: F ChinaEng ) [Chinese, as Cerasus fruticosa]
  
• prunier nain (Source: Zander ed17) [French]
  
• Steppenkirsche (Source: Zander ed14 ) [German]
  
• Zwergekirsche (Source: Zander ed17) [German]
  
• cereja-anã (Source: D. Groth, p.c. 2005) [Portuguese (Brazil)]
  
• See MMPND for additional names in foreign scripts.

Economic importance:

• Environmental uses: ornamental; revegetator (fide Dict Gard; L. Gilbert, pers. comm. 1998, for land reclamation)
  
• Human food: potential as fruit (fide F USSR)
  
• Gene sources: potential gene source for stone fruits (for drought resistance fide Dict Gard)
  

Distributional range: Native:

• Asia-Temperate: Kazakhstan; Russian Federation - Ciscaucasia, Western Siberia
• Europe: Austria; Belarus; Bulgaria; Czechoslovakia; Germany; Hungary; Italy; Moldova; Poland; Romania; Russian Federation - European part [south & central]; Ukraine
• Northern America: Canada - Manitoba

Other:

• introduced & naturalized elsewhere

References:

• A. Rehder. 1949. Bibliography of cultivated trees and shrubs. (Rehder)
  
• V. L. Komarov et al., eds. 1934-1964. Flora SSSR. (F USSR) [= Cerasus fruticosa (Pall.) Woronow].
  
• T. G. Tutin et al., eds. 1964-1980. Flora europaea. (F Eur)
  
• Flora of China (English edition). (F ChinaEng) [= Cerasus fruticosa (Pall.) Woronow].
  
• G. Krussmann. 1984. Handbuch de Laubgeholze, Engl. translat. (Krussmann)
  
• Liberty Hyde Bailey Hortorium. 1976. Hortus third. (Hortus 3)
  
• International Seed Testing Association. 1988. International Seed Testing Association list of stabilized plant names. (ISTA)
  
• H. A. Gleason & A. Cronquist. 1963. Manual of vascular plants of northeastern United States and adjacent Canada. (Glea Cron)
  
• M. H. Porcher et al. Searchable World Wide Web Multilingual Multiscript Plant Name Database (MMPND). (Pl Names)
  
• A. Huxley, ed. The new Royal Horticultural Society dictionary of gardening. 1992 (Dict Gard)
  
• S. K. Czerepanov. 1995. Vascular plants of Russia and adjacent states (the former USSR). (L USSR) [= Cerasus fruticosa (Pall.) Woronow].
  
• J. H. Wiersema & B. León. 1999. World economic plants: a standard reference. (World Econ Pl)
  
• F. Encke et al. 1984. Zander: Handwörterbuch der Pflanzennamen, ed. 13. (Zander ed13)
  

Synonyms:

• Cerasus fruticosa (Pall.) Woronow
  
• Prunus cerasus var. pumila L.
  
• Prunus chamaecerasus Jacq.
  

Check other databases for Prunus fruticosa:

• Flora Europaea: Database of European Plants (ESFEDS)
• PLANTS: Database of North American Plants (USDA-NRCS)
• W³TROPICOS: Nomenclatural and Specimen Database of the Missouri Botanical Garden