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American plum
Prunus americana
Fort Collins
- Dimensions
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Height: 10.0 ft. to 20.0 ft.
Spread: 15.0 ft. to 20.0 ft. - Growth Form
- Shrub, Tree
- Program Association
- Nature in the City, Xeriscape Incentive Program
- Wildlife Uses
- Fish, Grassland Birds, Large Mammals, Medium-Sized Mammals, Pollinators/ Invertebrates, Riparian Birds, Shrubland Birds, Small Mammals, Wetland Birds, Woodland Birds
- Sun Requirements
- Full Sun, Part Sun
- Water Requirements
- Low, Moderate
- Plant Community
- Foothills, Plains
- Season of Bloom
- April, May
- Flower Color
- White Shades
- Leaf Color
- Green Shades
- Aggressiveness
- Readily Suckers
- Design Considerations
- Edible Fruit, Screening, Showy Flowers
- Other Considerations
- Thorns
- Duration
- Perennial
- Natural Landscape Position
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Fort Collins Model
3, 4 - Soil Type
- Rocky, Variable
- Pests/Disease Prone
- No City Data
- Hazards/Toxic
- Careful! Sharp Spines, Thorns Or Other Appendages.
Notes
This plant usually forms thickets but, can be pruned into a tree form.
This is an important larval and adult food host for many of our native invertebrates.