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Introductory
SPECIES: Prunus pensylvanica | Pin Cherry
ABBREVIATION :
PRUPEN
SYNONYMS :
NO-ENTRY
SCS PLANT CODE :
PRPE2
PRPEP
PRPES
COMMON NAMES :
pin cherry
fire cherry
bird cherry
wild red cherry
northern pin cherry
pigeon cherry
TAXONOMY :
The fully documented scientific name of pin cherry is Prunus
pensylvanica L. f. Varieties are [5]:
P. p. var. pensylvanica
P. p. var. saximontana Rehd.
LIFE FORM :
Tree
FEDERAL LEGAL STATUS :
No special status
OTHER STATUS :
NO-ENTRY
COMPILED BY AND DATE :
N. McMurray, June 1987
LAST REVISED BY AND DATE :
NO-ENTRY
AUTHORSHIP AND CITATION :
McMurray, Nancy E. 1987. Prunus pensylvanica. In: Remainder of Citation
DISTRIBUTION AND OCCURRENCE
SPECIES: Prunus pensylvanica | Pin Cherry
GENERAL DISTRIBUTION :
Pin cherry's range extends from Newfoundland and Labrador west to
southern Mackenzie District and British Columbia in Canada. Scattered
stands occur south in the Rocky Mountains to Montana and Colorado;
southeastward from the Black Hills of South Dakota to Iowa, Illinois,
Pennsylvania, and New Jersey; and northeast to New England. In the
Southeast pin cherry is distributed in the Appalachian Mountains south
to northern Georgia and eastern Tennessee [7].
ECOSYSTEMS :
FRES10 White - red - jack pine
FRES11 Spruce - fir
FRES15 Oak - hickory
FRES17 Elm - ash - cottonwood
FRES18 Maple - beech - birch
FRES19 Aspen - birch
STATES :
CO CT GA IL IN IA KY ME MD MA
MI MN MT NE NH NJ NY NC NC ND
OH PA RI SC SD TN VT VA WV WI
WY AB BC MB NF ON PQ SK
ADMINISTRATIVE UNITS :
ACAD ALPO APIS BLRI CACO CHCH
CUVA DEWA GRSM INDU ISRO JOFL
MANA NERI PIRO ROMO SARA SHEN
SLBE THRO VOYA WICA
BLM PHYSIOGRAPHIC REGIONS :
14 Great Plains
15 Black Hills Uplift
16 Upper Missouri Basin and Range
KUCHLER PLANT ASSOCIATIONS :
K093 Great Lakes spruce - fir forest
K095 Great Lakes pine forest
K097 Southeastern spruce - fir forest
K098 Northern floodplain forest
K102 Beech - maple forest
K103 Mixed mesophytic forest
K106 Northern hardwoods
K108 Northern hardwoods - spruce forest
SAF COVER TYPES :
16 Aspen
17 Pin cherry
18 Paper birch
19 Gray birch - red maple
20 White pine - northern red oak - red maple
21 Eastern white pine
25 Sugar maple - beech - yellow birch
28 Black cherry - maple
32 Red spruce
34 Red spruce - Fraser fir
60 Beech - sugar maple
108 Red maple
SRM (RANGELAND) COVER TYPES :
NO-ENTRY
HABITAT TYPES AND PLANT COMMUNITIES :
NO-ENTRY
VALUE AND USE
SPECIES: Prunus pensylvanica | Pin Cherry
WOOD PRODUCTS VALUE :
NO-ENTRY
IMPORTANCE TO LIVESTOCK AND WILDLIFE :
NO-ENTRY
PALATABILITY :
The degree of use shown by livestock and wildlife species for pin cherry
is rated as follows [2]:
ND WY
Pronghorn Good Poor
Elk ---- Poor
Mule deer Good Fair
Small mammals ---- Good
Small nongame ---- Good
birds
Upland game birds ---- Good
Waterfowl ---- Poor
NUTRITIONAL VALUE :
NO-ENTRY
COVER VALUE :
Cover value of pin cherry has been rated as follows [2]:
CO ND UT WY
Pronghorn Poor Good ---- Poor
Elk ---- ---- ---- Poor
Mule deer ---- ---- ---- Fair
White-tailed deer Good Good Good ----
Small mammals ---- ---- ---- Good
Small nongame birds ---- ---- ---- Good
Upland game birds ---- ---- ---- Good
VALUE FOR REHABILITATION OF DISTURBED SITES :
NO-ENTRY
OTHER USES AND VALUES :
NO-ENTRY
MANAGEMENT CONSIDERATIONS :
NO-ENTRY
BOTANICAL AND ECOLOGICAL CHARACTERISTICS
SPECIES: Prunus pensylvanica | Pin Cherry
GENERAL BOTANICAL CHARACTERISTICS :
NO-ENTRY
RAUNKIAER LIFE FORM :
NO-ENTRY
REGENERATION PROCESSES :
NO-ENTRY
SITE CHARACTERISTICS :
NO-ENTRY
SUCCESSIONAL STATUS :
NO-ENTRY
SEASONAL DEVELOPMENT :
NO-ENTRY
FIRE ECOLOGY
SPECIES: Prunus pensylvanica | Pin Cherry
FIRE ECOLOGY OR ADAPTATIONS :
NO-ENTRY
POSTFIRE REGENERATION STRATEGY :
NO-ENTRY
FIRE EFFECTS
SPECIES: Prunus pensylvanica | Pin Cherry
IMMEDIATE FIRE EFFECT ON PLANT :
NO-ENTRY
DISCUSSION AND QUALIFICATION OF FIRE EFFECT :
NO-ENTRY
PLANT RESPONSE TO FIRE :
NO-ENTRY
DISCUSSION AND QUALIFICATION OF PLANT RESPONSE :
NO-ENTRY
FIRE MANAGEMENT CONSIDERATIONS :
NO-ENTRY
REFERENCES
SPECIES: Prunus pensylvanica | Pin Cherry
REFERENCES :
1. Bernard, Stephen R.; Brown, Kenneth F. 1977. Distribution of mammals,
reptiles, and amphibians by BLM physiographic regions and A.W. Kuchler's
associations for the eleven western states. Tech. Note 301. Denver, CO:
U.S. Department of the Interior, Bureau of Land Management. 169 p.
[434]
2. Dittberner, Phillip L.; Olson, Michael R. 1983. The plant information
network (PIN) data base: Colorado, Montana, North Dakota, Utah, and
Wyoming. FWS/OBS-83/86. Washington, DC: U.S. Department of the Interior,
Fish and Wildlife Service. 786 p. [806]
3. Eyre, F. H., ed. 1980. Forest cover types of the United States and
Canada. Washington, DC: Society of American Foresters. 148 p. [905]
4. Garrison, George A.; Bjugstad, Ardell J.; Duncan, Don A.; [and others].
1977. Vegetation and environmental features of forest and range
ecosystems. Agric. Handb. 475. Washington, DC: U.S. Department of
Agriculture, Forest Service. 68 p. [998]
5. Kartesz, John T. 1994. A synonymized checklist of the vascular flora of
the United States, Canada, and Greenland. Volume II--thesaurus. 2nd ed.
Portland, OR: Timber Press. 816 p. [23878]
6. Kuchler, A. W. 1964. Manual to accompany the map of potential vegetation
of the conterminous United States. Special Publication No. 36. New York:
American Geographical Society. 77 p. [1384]
7. Munns, E. N. 1938. The distribution of important forest trees of the
United States. Misc. Publ. No. 287. Washington, DC: U.S. Department of
Agriculture. 176 p. [21774]
8. Raunkiaer, C. 1934. The life forms of plants and statistical plant
geography. Oxford: Clarendon Press. 632 p. [2843]
9. Shiflet, Thomas N., ed. 1994. Rangeland cover types of the United
States. Denver, CO: Society for Range Management. 152 p. [23362]
10. Stickney, Peter F. 1989. Seral origin of species originating in northern
Rocky Mountain forests. Unpublished draft on file at: U.S. Department of
Agriculture, Forest Service, Intermountain Research Station, Fire
Sciences Laboratory, Missoula, MT; RWU 4403 files. 7 p. [20090]
11. U.S. Department of Agriculture, Soil Conservation Service. 1994. Plants
of the U.S.--alphabetical listing. Washington, DC: U.S. Department of
Agriculture, Soil Conservation Service. 954 p. [23104]
12. U.S. Department of the Interior, National Biological Survey. [n.d.]. NP
Flora [Data base]. Davis, CA: U.S. Department of the Interior, National
Biological Survey. [23119]
Index
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