Plant Details

Accepted name:: Prunus serotina Ehrh. [Rosaceae]
Source:: World Checklist ( Medium Taxonomic Confidence )
More about this plant:: Plants of the World Online
Infraspecies:: 4

Prunus serotina var. alabamensis (C.Mohr) Little

Prunus serotina var. rufula (Wooton & Standl.) McVaugh

Prunus serotina var. serotina

Prunus serotina var. salicifolia (Kunth) Koehne

Non-scientific name:	Class of name:	Medicinal source:
american cherry	Other	Indian Med. Pl. Database (TDU, 2020)
american wild cherry	Other	Med. Pl. of the World (Wyk & Wink, 2004)
black cherry	Other	GRIN Report: World Economic Plants (Wiersema, 1999) Herbs of Commerce (McGuffin et al., 2000) Indian Med. Pl. Database (TDU, 2020) Med. Pl. of the World (Wyk & Wink, 2004) Native American Ethnobotany (Moerman, 1998) U.S. FDA Substance Registration System (2016)
cabinet cherry	Other	Indian Med. Pl. Database (TDU, 2020)
capulin	Other	Indian Med. Pl. Database (TDU, 2020)
cerezo americano	Other	Archivos de Flora Iberica (Morales et al., 1996) Encyclopedia of Herb. Medicine (Bartram, 1995)
ciliegio	Other	Dizionario delle Erbe Med. (Suozzi, 1995) Encyclopedia of Herb. Medicine (Bartram, 1995)
glanshägg	Other	GRIN Report: World Economic Plants (Wiersema, 1999)
griottier	Other	Encyclopedia of Herb. Medicine (Bartram, 1995)
merisier	Other	GRIN Report: World Economic Plants (Wiersema, 1999)
pruno tardivo	Other	GRIN Report: World Economic Plants (Wiersema, 1999) World Economic Plants (Wiersema et al., 2013)
prunus virginiana	Other	U.S. Homeopathic Pharmacopoeia (HPUS, 2009)
rum cherry	Other	GRIN Report: World Economic Plants (Wiersema, 1999) Indian Med. Pl. Database (TDU, 2020)
vogelkirschenbaum	Other	Dizionario delle Erbe Med. (Suozzi, 1995)
whild cherry bark	Other	Encyclopedia of Herb. Medicine (Bartram, 1995)
wild black cherry	Other	Herbs of Commerce (McGuffin et al., 2000)
wild cherry	Other	GRIN Report: World Economic Plants (Wiersema, 1999)

Part(s) of plant used:	Drug form:	Medicinal source:
bark		Med. Pl. of the World (Wyk & Wink, 2004)

Kew's taxonomic resources include 3 scientific synonym(s) for this plant:

Cerasus serotina (Ehrh.) Poit. & Turpin in H.L.Duhamel du Monceau, Traité Arbr. Fruit. 2: n.° 23 (1807).
Padus serotina (Ehrh.) Borkh. Arch. Bot. (Leipzig) 1(2): 38 (1797).
Prunus serotina f. typica Schwer. Mitt. Deutsch. Dendrol. Ges. 15: 3 (1906 publ. 1907), not validly publ.

This plant is cited in medicinal sources using the following names:

Name as published:	Medicinal source:
Prunus serotina	Med. Pl. of the World (Wyk & Wink, 2004) SOTWP 2016: Kew Economic Botany Collection (2015) Substances in Medicines, Australia (TGA, 2007)
Prunus serotina Ehrh.	Archivos de Flora Iberica (Morales et al., 1996) Dizionario delle Erbe Med. (Suozzi, 1995) Encyclopedia of Herb. Medicine (Bartram, 1995) Herbs of Commerce (McGuffin et al., 2000) Indian Med. Pl. Database (TDU, 2020) Med. Pl. Latin America (Duke, 2009) Native American Ethnobotany (Moerman, 1998) SOTWP 2016: Kew Economic Botany Collection (2015) U.S. FDA Substance Registration System (2016) U.S. Homeopathic Pharmacopoeia (HPUS, 2009) WHODrug Herbal Substances (WHO-UMC, 2019) World Dictionary of Med. & Pois. Pl. (Quattrocchi, 2012) World Economic Plants (Wiersema et al., 2013)
Prunus serotina Ehrh. var. serotina	World Dictionary of Med. & Pois. Pl. (Quattrocchi, 2012)
Prunus serotina Ehrh., nom. cons.	GRIN Report: World Economic Plants (Wiersema, 1999)
Prunus serotina Ehrhart	Pl. Med. Totius Mundi (Penso & Proserpio, 1997) SOTWP 2016: Kew Economic Botany Collection (2015)

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