American Plum

Prunus americana
Plant size: #5
H: 15–20 feet W: 15–20 feet
Zone 3
Full sun to part shade

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We’ve finally found a supplier to provide this American native plum which does grow wild in Wyoming. Add this shrub to your landscape for its many beneficial qualities. Stunning beauty in the spring through the presentation of white flowers along its arching branches. The fruit, yellow with an overlay of red, is edible (great for pies and jelly). This shrub is also beneficial as a pollinator for other fruiting plum varieties. Provided in shrub-form, not as a single stem.

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Throughout this site, the following are used as guidelines for watering established plants:

water_drops_icon  These truly xeric plants can live with our 12 inches of natural annual precipitation and only need a winter watering during a multi-year drought, but they will thrive with a monthly watering. Overwatering will kill some of these.
water_drops_iconwater_drops_icon  These plants are adapted to intermittent deep watering with soil drying to a depth of a few inches between waterings. Watering frequency may be every couple of weeks during the active growing season and maybe only one winter watering for optimal care.
water_drops_iconwater_drops_iconwater_drops_icon  These plants need regular watering somewhat like a bluegrass lawn so that they never dry to depth in the root system during the active growing season, and need occasional winter watering to prevent root dessication and resultant plant death.

About sizes of our plants:

Sizes indicated with a # are roughly the equivalent in gallonage; so a #2 is about a 2 gallon pot size; b&b stands for balled and burlapped.