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|accepted_name=Prunus subcordata
|accepted_authority=Bentham
|publications={{Treatment/Publication
|title=Pl. Hartw.,
|place=308. 1849
|year=1849
}}
|common_names=Sierra or Klamath or Pacific plumE
|basionyms=
|synonyms={{Treatment/ID/Synonym
|name=Prunus subcordata var. kelloggii
|authority=Lemmon
}} {{Treatment/ID/Synonym
|name=P. subcordata var. oregana
|authority=(Greene) W. Wight
}} {{Treatment/ID/Synonym
|name=P. subcordata var. rubicunda
|authority=Jepson
}}
|hierarchy=Rosaceae;Rosaceae subfam. Amygdaloideae;Rosaceae tribe Amygdaleae;Prunus;Prunus subcordata
|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 subcordata]]</div></div>
|volume=Volume 9
|mention_page=page 354, 355, 357, 358, 359, 360, 361
|treatment_page=page 377
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--><span class="statement" id="st-undefined" data-properties=""><b>Shrubs </b>or trees, often suckering, 10–30(–60) dm, sometimes thorny. <b>Twigs</b> with axillary end buds, glabrous or hairy. <b>Leaves</b> deciduous; petiole 4–18 mm, glabrous or hairy, usually glandular distally, glands 1–3, discoid; blade elliptic, oblong-ovate, or suborbiculate, 2–5(–6.5) × 1.3–3.5(–4.5) cm, base rounded or subcordate, margins singly to doubly serrulate, teeth blunt, glandular, apex usually obtuse to rounded, rarely acute, abaxial surface glabrous or hairy, adaxial glabrous or appressed-hairy. <b>Inflorescences</b> 2–5-flowered, umbellate fascicles. <b>Pedicels</b> 5–15 mm, glabrous or hairy. <b>Flowers</b> blooming at leaf emergence; hypanthium campanulate, 2–3.5 mm, glabrous or hairy externally; sepals broadly spreading to reflexed, obovate, 2.2–4(–5) mm, margins glandular-toothed, sometimes obscurely so, sometimes ciliate, surfaces glabrous or hairy; petals white, oblong-obovate, 5–10 mm; ovaries usually glabrous, rarely hairy. <b>Drupes</b> usually red to reddish purple, sometimes yellow, globose to ellipsoid, 15–25 mm, usually glabrous, rarely puberulent; mesocarps fleshy; stones ovoid, ± flattened.</span><!--

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|phenology=Flowering Mar–May; fruiting Aug–Sep.
|habitat=Stream banks, dry rocky slopes, chaparral, pine-oak and juniper-oak woodlands
|elevation=100–1900 m
|distribution=Calif.;Oreg.
|discussion=<p><i>Prunus subcordata</i> shows variation in color, size, indument, and palatability of fruits, which has been the basis for recognition of taxonomic segregates. Variety kelloggii was described as a larger plant with less hairy foliage than in typical <i>P. subcordata</i>, and its fruits are yellow, larger, sweeter, and more pulpy. Variety rubicunda is a smaller shrub with bright red, bitter fruits. Most noteworthy is <i></i></i>var.<i><i> oregana</i> with densely hairy ovaries and puberulent fruits, recorded only from the sparsely inhabited border region between northeastern California and adjacent Oregon. Specimens in herbaria are few and recent collections are lacking. The assignment of <i>P. texana</i> with hairy fruits to the plums (J. Shaw and R. L. Small 2005) makes this variant all the more interesting. Field study and collection followed by morphologic, genetic, and molecular study are needed to clarify its systematic position and significance.</p>
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name=Prunus subcordata
|author=
|authority=Bentham
|rank=species
|parent rank=genus
|synonyms=Prunus subcordata var. kelloggii;P. subcordata var. oregana;P. subcordata var. rubicunda
|basionyms=
|family=Rosaceae
|phenology=Flowering Mar–May; fruiting Aug–Sep.
|habitat=Stream banks, dry rocky slopes, chaparral, pine-oak and juniper-oak woodlands
|elevation=100–1900 m
|distribution=Calif.;Oreg.
|reference=None
|publication title=Pl. Hartw.,
|publication year=1849
|special status=
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|subfamily=Rosaceae subfam. Amygdaloideae
|tribe=Rosaceae tribe Amygdaleae
|genus=Prunus
|species=Prunus subcordata
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