Oklahoma Plum
Prunus gracilis
Oklahoma plum, or sand plum, is a low thicket-forming plum of dry sandy and rocky prairies, white with bloom in earliest spring. Its small red plums are gathered for jelly and feed abundant wildlife.
- Family
- Rosaceae
- Type
- shrub
- Lifespan
- perennial
- Height
- 3–8 ft
- Spacing
- 4–10 ft apart
- Light
- sun
- Soil moisture
- dry
- Soil pH
- neutral, alkaline, acidic
- Bloom
- March, April
- Bloom colors
- white
- Wildlife value
- pollinators, songbirds, butterflies, larval host
- Caterpillar hosts
- ~456 butterfly & moth species
- Landscape uses
- specimen, hedge or screen, foundation, erosion control
- Native states
- LA, OK, TX