Black Cherry (Prunus serotina)

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Identidad taxonómica

Scientific name: Prunus serotina Ehrh.
Canonical name: The scientific name without its authorship or date, for example Zea mays instead of Zea mays L.: Prunus serotina
Authorship: The author or authors credited with publishing the scientific name. It is written after the name, sometimes with the year, for example L. (Linnaeus) in Zea mays L. An author in parentheses first published the name in another genus or rank.: Ehrh.
Common names: Black Cherry, Rum Cherry, Black Chokecherry, Rum Cherry, Black Cherry, Wild Cherry, wild black cherry
Names in other languages (32)
Amerikaanse vogelkers, Bospest, Capulin, Ceiriosen Hwyrddail, Cerezo Americano, Cerisier noir, Cerisier tardif, Ciliegio tardivo, Coeden Geirios Rym, Czeremcha amerykańska, Glansbladet hæg, Herbst-Traubenkirsche, Herbsttraubenkirsche, Merisier tardif, Prunier tardif, Cerisier tardif, Cerisier noir, Cerisier d'automne, Pruno autunnale, Rum Cherry (EN), Sildig hæg, Spätblühende Traubenkirsche, Späte Trauben-Kirsche, Späte Traubenkirsche, Späte Traubenkirsche (DE), Vėlyvoji ieva, capulín, cerisier d'automne, glanshägg, kései zelnicemeggy, merisier, pruno tardivo, romhegg, střemcha pozdní, vēl
Kingdom: One of the broadest ranks of biological classification. It groups organisms that share very basic features, for example plants (Plantae), animals (Animalia) or fungi (Fungi).: Plantae
Phylum: Rank below kingdom that groups organisms with a shared general body plan, for example chordates (Chordata), arthropods (Arthropoda) or vascular plants (Tracheophyta). In botany the same rank is also called division.: Tracheophyta
Class: Rank below phylum, for example mammals (Mammalia), birds (Aves), insects (Insecta) or monocot plants such as grasses and orchids (Liliopsida).: Magnoliopsida
Order: Rank below class that groups related families, for example grasses and their relatives (Poales) or bats (Chiroptera).: Rosales
Family: Rank below order that groups related genera. Family names usually end in -aceae in botany (for example Poaceae, the grass family) and in -idae in zoology (for example Felidae, the cat family).: Rosaceae
Genus: Rank that groups closely related species. Its name is the first word of a species' scientific name and starts with a capital letter, for example Zea in Zea mays.: Prunus
Specific epithet: The second word of a species' scientific name. On its own it does not name the species: it always goes with the genus, for example mays in Zea mays.: serotina
Taxonomic rank: The level a name occupies in the hierarchy of biological classification, such as kingdom, family, genus, species or subspecies.: species
Reference species: Prunus serotina
Taxonomic status: Whether the taxonomic catalogue the record comes from currently accepts this name for the organism, or treats it as a synonym of another accepted name or as doubtful.: accepted name

Photos and conservation status

IUCN Red List category: The extinction-risk category that the International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN) assigns to a species on its Red List. EX Extinct: there is no reasonable doubt that the last individual has died. EW Extinct in the wild: it survives only in cultivation, in captivity or as a population far outside its past range. CR Critically endangered, EN Endangered and VU Vulnerable: the three threatened categories, from an extremely high to a high risk of extinction in the wild. NT Near threatened: close to qualifying as threatened. LC Least concern: evaluated and not threatened. DD Data deficient: there is not enough information to assess its risk. NE Not evaluated: not yet assessed against the criteria. It describes the risk of the species worldwide, not its situation in a project's area.: Least concern (LC)
Source: IUCN Red List via GBIF, queried on 2026-10-09 11:35.

Photo of Prunus serotina Ehrh. — Photo: Alan Prather · CC BY 4.0 · View original image · Original observation

Research-grade iNaturalist observations via GBIF, CC0 or CC BY licences only, queried on 2026-10-09 11:35.

Interacciones documentadas

GloBI says it is documented somewhere in the world. Biolitica answers whether it could happen here.

A documented interaction means it was recorded somewhere in the world. It does not mean it occurs here.

Types shown: 1 of 19 has its flowers visited by × 18 more types with data for this species

Flower visit

has its flowers visited by 169 organisms

The authority declares no effect on this species for this term: neither that it harms it nor that it benefits it. Visiting a flower is not pollinating it. «Pollinates» is a different term and a different block, and merging the two is the measured defect that turned ~88 shared «pollinators» into birds and primates.

Organism	Reads as	Studies	Where it was documented
American Robin Turdus migratorius Turdidae	has its flowers visited by	5	not compared
5 sources · 5 records https://www.inaturalist.org/observations/139380187 Published in globalbioticinteractions/inaturalist Context: no place published · Oct. 19, 2022 · Human observation https://www.inaturalist.org/observations/139380267 Published in globalbioticinteractions/inaturalist Context: no place published · Oct. 19, 2022 · Human observation https://www.inaturalist.org/observations/139380326 Published in globalbioticinteractions/inaturalist Context: no place published · Oct. 19, 2022 · Human observation https://www.inaturalist.org/observations/139380375 Published in globalbioticinteractions/inaturalist Context: no place published · Oct. 19, 2022 · Human observation https://www.inaturalist.org/observations/139380434 Published in globalbioticinteractions/inaturalist Context: no place published · Oct. 19, 2022 · Human observation A published relationship says these two taxa were documented interacting. It does not say how often, or that it happens in this project's region.
Miserable Mining Bee Andrena miserabilis Andrenidae	has its flowers visited by	4	not compared
4 sources · 4 records Robertson, C. 1929. Flowers and insects: lists of visitors to four hundred and fifty-three flowers. Carlinville, IL, USA, C. Robertson. Published in millerse/Flowers-and-insects-lists-of-visitors-to-four-hundred-and-fifty-three-flowers Context: southwestern Illinois, USA · no date published https://www.inaturalist.org/observations/163644192 Published in globalbioticinteractions/inaturalist Context: no place published · May 24, 2023 · Human observation https://www.inaturalist.org/observations/163981817 Published in globalbioticinteractions/inaturalist Context: no place published · May 26, 2023 · Human observation Records of organisms other than plants having flower visitors are probably errors Published in globalbioticinteractions/refuted-biotic-interactions-by-eol Context: no place published · no date published A published relationship says these two taxa were documented interacting. It does not say how often, or that it happens in this project's region.
Milwaukee Miner Andrena milwaukeensis Andrenidae	has its flowers visited by	4	not compared
4 sources · 5 records LaBerge, Wallace E. A Revision of the Bees of the Genus Andrena of the Western Hemisphere. Part X. Subgenus Andrena. Transactions of the American Entomological Society (1890-), vol. 106, no. 4, 1980, pp. 395–525. JSTOR, www.jstor.org/stable/25078273. Accessed 18 Aug. 2020. Published in Extended-Bee-Network/bee-interaction-database Record contexts (sample): no place published · no date published; no place published · no date published https://www.inaturalist.org/observations/215538862 Published in globalbioticinteractions/inaturalist Context: no place published · May 13, 2024 · Human observation https://www.inaturalist.org/observations/161863178 Published in globalbioticinteractions/inaturalist Context: no place published · May 10, 2023 · Human observation https://www.inaturalist.org/observations/163645195 Published in globalbioticinteractions/inaturalist Context: no place published · May 24, 2023 · Human observation A published relationship says these two taxa were documented interacting. It does not say how often, or that it happens in this project's region.
Eastern Pine Elfin Callophrys niphon	has its flowers visited by	4	not compared
4 sources · 4 records https://www.inaturalist.org/observations/358645442 Published in globalbioticinteractions/inaturalist Context: no place published · May 5, 2026 · Human observation https://www.inaturalist.org/observations/162569179 Published in globalbioticinteractions/inaturalist Context: no place published · May 18, 2023 · Human observation https://www.inaturalist.org/observations/163154077 Published in globalbioticinteractions/inaturalist Context: no place published · May 21, 2023 · Human observation https://www.inaturalist.org/observations/164011918 Published in globalbioticinteractions/inaturalist Context: no place published · May 27, 2023 · Human observation A published relationship says these two taxa were documented interacting. It does not say how often, or that it happens in this project's region.

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Interaction data from Global Biotic Interactions (GloBI), GloBI 0.11. Each row keeps the citation its own study published.

Interactions are published at species level: they are not resolved by variety or race.

Each block is headed by the source's own term, read from this species' end — not by a category of ours. Two similar terms are not merged.

«Documented here» means the interaction was observed in this territory. It is not evidence that the species is here, and it does not enter the niche model.

Acompañantes documentados

This agronomic reading comes from a source reserved for internal use, so it is not shown here.

Documented uses and recommendations

Uses and recommendations that a source documents for this species beside a crop, each in its own context. They are the source's statements, not traits of the species and not Biolítica's recommendations, and none of them is a relation between two species.

Not grouped under a navigation concept

What the source states	Claim type	Context	Source	Actions
Árbol nativo candidato de paisaje	Recommendation of a guideRecommended	coffee · Veracruz, México	Biolítica · compilación de café de CIE-10 sha256:e376ce4d636a
1 source · 2 records Flores-Ortiz et al. 2025 Record contexts (sample): coffee · Veracruz, México; coffee · Veracruz, México A guide's recommendation, in its own context. It is not a measurement and does not carry over to another crop or region.