Klamath Plum
Prunus subcordata
The only native plum of California and southern Oregon, Klamath plum forms thorny thickets bright with white bloom and edible red-purple plums long gathered for jelly. As with every plum and cherry, the flesh is the food: the pits, leaves and twigs are cyanogenic and are not.
- Family
- Rosaceae
- Type
- tree
- Lifespan
- perennial
- Height
- 25–25 ft
- Spacing
- 8–18 ft apart
- Light
- sun
- Soil moisture
- moist
- Soil pH
- neutral
- 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, erosion control
- Native states
- CA, OR
Related native plants
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- American Plum (Prunus americana)
- Mexican Plum (Prunus mexicana)