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 Pl. (Wiersema & León, 1999) Herbs of Commerce (McGuffin et al., 2000) Indian Med. Pl. Database (TDU, 2020) Med. Pl. of the World (Wyk & Wink, 2004) Native American Ethnobot.(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)
capulí	Other	Med. Pl. in N Peruvian Andes (Corroto et al., 2019)
glanshägg	Other	GRIN Report: World Economic Pl. (Wiersema & León, 1999)
merisier	Other	GRIN Report: World Economic Pl. (Wiersema & León, 1999)
pruno tardivo	Other	GRIN Report: World Economic Pl. (Wiersema & León, 1999)
prunus virginiana	Other	U.S. Homeopathic Pharmacopoeia (HPUS, 2009)
rum cherry	Other	GRIN Report: World Economic Pl. (Wiersema & León, 1999) Indian Med. Pl. Database (TDU, 2020)
wild black cherry	Other	Herbs of Commerce (McGuffin et al., 2000)
wild cherry	Other	GRIN Report: World Economic Pl. (Wiersema & León, 1999)
wild cherry bark	Other	WHODrug Herbal Substances, Suppl. 2023 (WHO-UMC, 2023)

Part(s) of plant used:	Drug form:	Medicinal source:
leaf		Med. Pl. in N Peruvian Andes (Corroto et al., 2019)
bark		WHODrug Herbal Substances, Suppl. 2023 (WHO-UMC, 2023)
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 (RBG, Kew, 2015) Substances in Meds., Australia (TGA, 2007)
Prunus serotina Ehrh.	Herbs of Commerce (McGuffin et al., 2000) Indian Med. Pl. Database (TDU, 2020) Med. Pl. Latin America (Duke, 2009) Med. Pl. in N Peruvian Andes (Corroto et al., 2019) Native American Ethnobot.(Moerman, 1998) SOTWP 2016: Kew Economic Botany Collection (RBG, Kew, 2015) U.S. FDA Substance Registration System (2016) U.S. Homeopathic Pharmacopoeia (HPUS, 2009) WHODrug Herbal Substances (WHO-UMC, 2019) WHODrug Herbal Substances, Suppl. 2023 (WHO-UMC, 2023) World Checklist of Useful Pl. Spp. (Diazgranados et al., 2020) World Dictionary of Med. & Pois. Pl. (Quattrocchi, 2012)
Prunus serotina Ehrh. var. serotina	World Dictionary of Med. & Pois. Pl. (Quattrocchi, 2012)
Prunus serotina Ehrh., nom. cons.	GRIN Report: World Economic Pl. (Wiersema & León, 1999)
Prunus serotina Ehrhart	Pl. Med. Totius Mundi (Penso & Proserpio, 1997) SOTWP 2016: Kew Economic Botany Collection (RBG, Kew, 2015)

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