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|accepted_name=Prunus cerasus
|accepted_authority=Linnaeus
|publications={{Treatment/Publication
|title=Sp. Pl.
|place=1: 474. 1753
|year=1753
}}
|common_names=Sour or pie cherry;cerisier acide
|special_status={{Treatment/ID/Special_status
|code=I
|label=Introduced
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|synonyms=
|hierarchy=Rosaceae;Rosaceae subfam. Amygdaloideae;Rosaceae tribe Amygdaleae;Prunus;Prunus cerasus
|hierarchy_nav=<div class="higher-taxa"><div class="higher-taxon"><small>family</small>[[Rosaceae]]</div><div class="higher-taxon"><small>subfamily</small>[[Rosaceae subfam. Amygdaloideae]]</div><div class="higher-taxon"><small>tribe</small>[[Rosaceae tribe Amygdaleae]]</div><div class="higher-taxon"><small>genus</small>[[Prunus]]</div><div class="higher-taxon"><small>species</small>[[Prunus cerasus]]</div></div>
|volume=Volume 9
|mention_page=page 357, 360, 369
|treatment_page=page 368
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--><span class="statement" id="st-undefined" data-properties=""><b>Shrubs </b>or trees, suckering, 30–50(–80) dm, not thorny. <b>Twigs</b> with terminal end buds, glabrous. <b>Leaves</b> deciduous; petiole 10–24 mm, glabrous, usually eglandular, sometimes with discoid marginal glands at bases of blades; blade broadly elliptic to ovate or obovate, 4.4–6(–8) × 2.8–4(–6) cm, base obtuse to rounded, margins doubly crenate-serrate, teeth blunt, glandular, apex acute to abruptly acuminate, abaxial surface glabrous or glabrate, adaxial glabrous. <b>Inflorescences</b> 1–4-flowered, umbellate fascicles. <b>Pedicels</b> 8–37 mm, glabrous. <b>Flowers</b> blooming at leaf emergence; hypanthium tubular-campanulate, 4–6 mm, glabrous externally; sepals reflexed, oblong, 4–7 mm, margins regularly glandular-toothed, surfaces glabrous; petals white, suborbiculate, 10–14 mm; ovaries glabrous. <b>Drupes</b> bright red, globose, 13–20 mm, glabrous; mesocarps fleshy; stones subglobose, not flattened. <b>2n</b> = 32.</span><!--

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|phenology=Flowering Apr–May; fruiting Jun–Jul.
|habitat=Roadsides, thickets, woodland borders, abandoned fields
|elevation=0–1000 m
|distribution=B.C.;N.B.;N.S.;Ont.;P.E.I.;Que.;Alaska;Calif.;Conn.;Del.;D.C.;Ga.;Idaho;Ill.;Ind.;Iowa;Kans.;Ky.;Maine;Md.;Mass.;Mich.;Mo.;Mont.;Nebr.;N.H.;N.J.;N.Mex.;N.Y.;N.C.;Ohio;Oreg.;Pa.;R.I.;Vt.;Va.;Wash.;W.Va.;Eurasia.
|discussion=<p>Cultivars of <i>Prunus cerasus</i> with doubled flowers are used as landscape ornamentals. Most of the commercial sour cherry crop in North America comes from Michigan. Unlike sweet cherry, all widely grown varieties of sour cherry are self-fertile. Bud scales at the bases of the pedicels on flowering and immature fruiting specimens of <i>P. cerasus</i> often have leaflike apices and the inner scales are erect; in <i>P. avium</i> the scales are not leaflike and the inner ones are reflexed or spreading.</p>
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name=Prunus cerasus
|author=
|authority=Linnaeus
|rank=species
|parent rank=genus
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|basionyms=
|family=Rosaceae
|phenology=Flowering Apr–May; fruiting Jun–Jul.
|habitat=Roadsides, thickets, woodland borders, abandoned fields
|elevation=0–1000 m
|distribution=B.C.;N.B.;N.S.;Ont.;P.E.I.;Que.;Alaska;Calif.;Conn.;Del.;D.C.;Ga.;Idaho;Ill.;Ind.;Iowa;Kans.;Ky.;Maine;Md.;Mass.;Mich.;Mo.;Mont.;Nebr.;N.H.;N.J.;N.Mex.;N.Y.;N.C.;Ohio;Oreg.;Pa.;R.I.;Vt.;Va.;Wash.;W.Va.;Eurasia.
|introduced=true
|reference=None
|publication title=Sp. Pl.
|publication year=1753
|special status=Introduced
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|subfamily=Rosaceae subfam. Amygdaloideae
|tribe=Rosaceae tribe Amygdaleae
|genus=Prunus
|species=Prunus cerasus
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