Wild plum
NativePrunus americana
Rose (Rosaceae) · Other broadleaf · 15–25 ft
Knowing it
A thicket-forming small tree with white spring flowers and red-yellow plums. Fencerows and woodland edges statewide.
What a tree company sees
Too small to threaten a structure; suckers spread.
Recorded in 59 counties
- Barry County
- Barton County
- Bates County
- Bollinger County
- Boone County
- Butler County
- Callaway County
- Camden County
- Cape Girardeau County
- Carter County
- Christian County
- Clark County
- Cooper County
- Daviess County
- Franklin County
- Greene County
- Hickory County
- Holt County
- Howell County
- Iron County
- Jackson County
- Jasper County
- Jefferson County
- Johnson County
- Knox County
- Laclede County
- Lafayette County
- Lawrence County
- Lincoln County
- Marion County
- McDonald County
- Montgomery County
- New Madrid County
- Newton County
- Nodaway County
- Oregon County
- Perry County
- Phelps County
- Platte County
- Polk County
- Pulaski County
- Putnam County
- Reynolds County
- Saline County
- Scotland County
- Scott County
- Shannon County
- St. Charles County
- St. Francois County
- St. Louis City
- St. Louis County
- Stoddard County
- Stone County
- Sullivan County
- Taney County
- Texas County
- Vernon County
- Warren County
- Wayne County
From GBIF occurrence records. No record does not mean absent.