Bitter Cherry
Prunus emarginata
Bitter cherry is a slender western cherry of foothills and forest openings, clouded with fragrant white flowers and hung with small bitter-red fruit that birds devour. An important larval host in the West.
- Family
- Rosaceae
- Type
- tree
- Lifespan
- perennial
- Height
- 15–50 ft
- Spacing
- 12–25 ft apart
- Light
- sun, part shade
- Soil moisture
- moist, dry
- Soil pH
- acidic, neutral
- Bloom
- April, May, June
- Bloom colors
- white
- Wildlife value
- pollinators, songbirds, butterflies, larval host
- Caterpillar hosts
- ~456 butterfly & moth species
- Landscape uses
- specimen
- Native states
- AZ, CA, ID, MT, NV, OR, WA