Prunus americana
Marshall · speciesAt a glance
Sources12 archives
Databases and archives Prunus americana's data was compiled from.
WikipediaWikimedia Foundation9 languages↗
BioWikiNetmultilingual Wikipediamultilingual↗
GBIFGlobal Biodiversity Information Facility6 106 records↗
ENAEuropean Nucleotide Archive · EMBL-EBI9 eDNA detections↗
BOLD SystemsCentre for Biodiversity Genomics15 specimens↗
NCBIUS National Library of Medicinesequences↗
GRIN TaxonomyUSDA-ARSdistribution & uses↗
Open Tree of LifeOpenTreephylogeny backbone↗
CCDBChromosome Counts DB · Tel Aviv U.genome & karyotype↗
PloiDBPloidy Databasegenome & karyotype
WikidataWikimedia Foundationstructured facts↗
GLoBIGlobal Biotic Interactionsbiotic interactions↗Every layer below draws on the sources above — open one to explore it, or use ← → to move between tabs.
Prunus americana, commonly called the American plum, wild plum, or Marshall's large yellow sweet plum, is a species of Prunus native to North America from Saskatchewan and Idaho south to New Mexico and east to Québec, Maine and Florida. Prunus americana has often been planted outside its native range and sometimes escapes cultivation.Little, Elbert L., Jr. (1950). Southwestern trees: A guide to the native species of New Mexico and Arizona. Agric. Handb. No. 9. Washington, DC: U.S. Department of Agriculture, Forest Service. 109 p. It is commonly confused with the Canada plum (Prunus nigra), although the fruit is smaller and rounder and bright red as opposed to yellow. Many cultivated varieties have been derived from this species. It forms an excellent stock upon which to graft the domestic plum.Downloadable Google Books at [1]
No narrative description available for this taxon yet.
Size & morphology6
Life cycle & reproduction26
Habitat & environment22
Physiology & chemistry22
Uses & economy15
Other traits7
A DNA barcode is a short, standardised stretch of genes that works like a fingerprint — enough to tell one species from another. Below is the molecular trace Prunus americana has left across the world's sequence archives.
At a glance
★ the standard DNA barcode for this group — the short region actually read to tell this species apart. The rest are extra genes sequenced along the way.
The complete instruction manual Prunus americana carries — its genome. We read it from three angles — how big it is, how the DNA is packed into chromosomes, and how completely it has been sequenced — and explain how to read each value as you go.
Chromosomes & ploidyhow the DNA is packaged
2n is the full chromosome count in a normal body cell; n is a gamete (egg or sperm), which carries half. Ploidy is how many complete chromosome sets each cell holds — 2× (diploid) is typical for animals, while higher levels (polyploidy) are common in plants. Click any value below to see the underlying records and sources.
2n 168×CCDB · ipcn-api-dl · CCDB · book-fedorov · CCDB · book-atlas-flowering-plants
diploid inferred1×PloiDB · genus-scale
How far back this lineage goes — and how we know. Everything here is measured in Ma, short for “mega-annum”: millions of years ago. The chart reads left to right like a calendar of the Earth, from the deep past on the left to today at the right edgetop to bottom like a core drilled through the Earth, from the deep past at the top down to today at the bottom.
At a glance
When this lineage existed
How to read this: the coloured strip along the bottomdown the left is the geological calendar — the standard epochs (Pliocene, Pleistocene…) every museum uses, shown so you can see which chapter of Earth's history this lineage lived in. This lineage is a young one, so the strip is zoomed in to epochs — the finer subdivisions inside a period. The orange marker is the DNA clock: DNA accumulates mutations at a roughly steady rate, so comparing this species' DNA with its relatives estimates when the lineage split off — independently of any fossil.
Record type6 106 records
Origin
Range
Wildobservation + sensor
Human sightings and records, or camera-trap / sensor detections — someone (or a device) saw or captured the species in the wild.
Museum / Voucheredphysical evidence
Backed by a physical specimen — a herbarium sheet, sample or voucher held in a collection. “Vouchered” means supported by material evidence, not just an observation.
Cultivated / Captivenot free-living
A living individual in a botanical garden, zoo or nursery — cultivated or kept, not free-living.
Wildobservation + sensor
Human sightings and records, or camera-trap / sensor detections — someone (or a device) saw or captured the species in the wild.
Holding institutions98 of 153 geolocated
Institutions and collections holding physical, vouchered specimens of this species — click a row to fly to it on the map.
| Institution | Specimens |
|---|---|
| Wuzhou, CN | 292 |
| Madison, US | 222 |
| Philadelphia, US | 191 |
| Chongqing Museumlocation not on record | 181 |
| St. Paul, US | 165 |
| Bloomington, US | 147 |
| Fort Worth, US | 96 |
| Bronx, US | 79 |
| Saint Louis, US | 79 |
| Denver, US | 68 |
| Chadron, US | 60 |
| Emporia, US | 58 |
| Chapel Hill, US | 55 |
| Ann Arbor, US | 53 |
| Bangkok, TH | 51 |
| DOI/NPS, Colonial National Historical Parklocation not on record | 42 |
| Musee des Dinosaures d'Esperaza (Aude)location not on record | 39 |
| Florida Museum of Natural History- Zoology, Paleontology & Paleobotanylocation not on record | 36 |
| University of Stellenboschlocation not on record | 36 |
| Spearfish, US | 36 |
| DOI/NPS, Greenbelt Parklocation not on record | 34 |
| Philadelphia, US | 29 |
| New Haven, US | 28 |
| Toronto, CA | 26 |
| Provo, US | 24 |
| Jackson, US | 22 |
| Jena Microbial Resource Collectionlocation not on record | 21 |
| Tampa, US | 20 |
| Allentown, US | 20 |
| Green Bay, US | 19 |
| Pittsburg, US | 19 |
| Whitewater, US | 17 |
| Davenport, US | 16 |
| Knoxville, US | 15 |
| Bozeman, US | 13 |
| Brookings, US | 13 |
| Williamsburg, US | 13 |
| Tuscaloosa, US | 13 |
| University of Tennessee at Chattanoogalocation not on record | 12 |
| Dekalb, US | 12 |
| Burlington, US | 12 |
| University of New Hampshirelocation not on record | 12 |
| Missoula, US | 11 |
| Albuquerque, US | 10 |
| Pullman, US | 9 |
| Denton, US | 9 |
| Lincoln, US | 9 |
| Claremont, US | 9 |
| Riverside, US | 8 |
| Chicago, US | 8 |
| McWane Science Centerlocation not on record | 8 |
| West Virginia Wesleyan Collegelocation not on record | 7 |
| DOI/NPS, Selma to Montgomery National Historic Traillocation not on record | 7 |
| University of Wisconsinlocation not on record | 7 |
| Morgantown, US | 7 |
| Staten Island, US | 7 |
| Kew, GB | 7 |
| AUAlocation not on record | 7 |
| WTUlocation not on record | 6 |
| Miami, US | 6 |
| GB | 6 |
| Richmond, US | 6 |
| Tall Timbers Research Stationlocation not on record | 6 |
| Fairfax, US | 5 |
| GAlocation not on record | 5 |
| Montréal, CA | 5 |
| Canadian Department of Agriculturelocation not on record | 5 |
| Boise, US | 5 |
| Millersville, US | 5 |
| BAYLUlocation not on record | 5 |
| Clemson, US | 4 |
| USFS/BHSClocation not on record | 4 |
| Springfield, US | 4 |
| James F. Matthews Center for Biodiversity Studieslocation not on record | 4 |
| Logan, US | 4 |
| College Park, US | 4 |
| Flagstaff, US | 3 |
| Chicago, US | 3 |
| Fredericksburg, US | 3 |
| Valdosta State Universitylocation not on record | 3 |
| Little Rock, US | 3 |
| DOI/NPS, Mississippi National River & Recreation Arealocation not on record | 3 |
| Museo Entomologico de Leonlocation not on record | 3 |
| Museum of the Rockieslocation not on record | 3 |
| New Brunswick, US | 3 |
| Washington, US | 3 |
| Corvallis, US | 3 |
| San Luis Obispo, US | 3 |
| Science Museum of Minnesotalocation not on record | 3 |
| EL PASO, US | 3 |
| Royal Botanical Gardenslocation not on record | 2 |
| University of North Carolina at Pembrokelocation not on record | 2 |
| Université Lavallocation not on record | 2 |
| Durham, US | 2 |
| Wlocation not on record | 2 |
| US | 2 |
| Smithsonian Institutionlocation not on record | 2 |
| Mohonk Preservelocation not on record | 2 |
| US | 2 |
| Johnson City, US | 2 |
| Clarksville, US | 2 |
| Jefferson City, US | 2 |
| Beijing, CN | 2 |
| Moscow State Universitylocation not on record | 2 |
| Maryland Department of Natural Resourceslocation not on record | 2 |
| University of Southern Mississippilocation not on record | 2 |
| ASUlocation not on record | 2 |
| WINlocation not on record | 2 |
| Dover, US | 2 |
| China Agricultural Universitylocation not on record | 2 |
| Macomb, US | 2 |
| Durango, US | 2 |
| Québec, CA | 2 |
| Kirksville, US | 2 |
| LINUlocation not on record | 1 |
| Austin, US | 1 |
| DOI/NPS, Little Rock Central High School National Historic Sitelocation not on record | 1 |
| University of Guelph, OAC Herbariumlocation not on record | 1 |
| Moscow, US | 1 |
| Orem, US | 1 |
| cslocation not on record | 1 |
| Asheville, US | 1 |
| Durango, MX | 1 |
| Western Carolina Universitylocation not on record | 1 |
| Riyadh Municipalitylocation not on record | 1 |
| Caldwell, US | 1 |
| Northridge, US | 1 |
| New Mexico Museum of Natural History and Sciencelocation not on record | 1 |
| Turlock, US | 1 |
| Lord Fairfax Community Collegelocation not on record | 1 |
| CONCOLlocation not on record | 1 |
| CASlocation not on record | 1 |
| Wellington, NZ | 1 |
| San Angelo, US | 1 |
| Mexico City, MX | 1 |
| Pomona Collegelocation not on record | 1 |
| Elikins, US | 1 |
| DULlocation not on record | 1 |
| Weber State Universitylocation not on record | 1 |
| Paris, FR | 1 |
| Kingston, US | 1 |
| USFSlocation not on record | 1 |
| Norfolk, US | 1 |
| Waverly, US | 1 |
| Decorah, US | 1 |
| Karlsruhe, DE | 1 |
| Edmonton, CA | 1 |
| Lubbock, US | 1 |
| Museo civico La Terra e l'Uomo di Crocetta del Montellolocation not on record | 1 |
| Pocatello, US | 1 |
| University of South Dakotalocation not on record | 1 |
| Inner Mongolia Universitylocation not on record | 1 |
| Minia, EG | 1 |
Cultivated / Captivenot free-living
A living individual in a botanical garden, zoo or nursery — cultivated or kept, not free-living.
Where the DNA of Prunus americana was picked up in samples of water, soil or air — nobody saw the organism, only its DNA left behind. A trace is a clue that the species was near, not a confirmed sighting.
Signal
Where its DNA was found
How strong is each trace?
Modelled climatemodelled
How to read this: each dot is one detection of this species' DNA in an environmental sample. The confidence meter weighs how many independent studies and places back up the signal — one detection in one study is a hint; many across several studies is solid. Records dated before 2008 (when eDNA methods began) are treated as likely mislabeled and left off the map.