Prunus avium(L.) L.

wild cherry

WFO wfo-0001006607 Accepted WFO 2026-06 8 photographs CC0 / CC BY

Plate 1 figs. a–h

Prunus avium, photographed by Yann Kemper
fig. a Yann Kemper, CC0 1.0 / 2022-06-06 / obs. 203940031
Prunus avium, photographed by Yann Kemper
fig. b Yann Kemper, CC0 1.0 / obs. 203548070
Prunus avium, photographed by Yann Kemper
fig. c Yann Kemper, CC0 1.0 / obs. 203170573
Prunus avium, photographed by Yann Kemper
fig. d Yann Kemper, CC0 1.0 / obs. 203286193
Prunus avium, photographed by Yann Kemper
fig. e Yann Kemper, CC0 1.0 / obs. 203008966
Prunus avium, photographed by Zoltán Stekkelpak
fig. f Zoltán Stekkelpak, CC0 1.0 / obs. 201877917
Prunus avium, photographed by Daniel Cahen
fig. g Daniel Cahen, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 199791008
Prunus avium, photographed by Stephen James McWilliam
fig. h Stephen James McWilliam, CC0 1.0 / obs. 201563310

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Flowering n = 2,353 observations

Peak flowering in Apr, from 2,353 community-annotated observations worldwide. This is a global aggregate, not a forecast for your garden: the same species flowers on different dates in different hemispheres, and citizen-science records cluster near cities, at weekends, and in spring. Where a species has fewer than 30 annotated records we do not draw this chart at all.

Also published as 216 synonyms

A synonym is not an error. It is a record of botanists disagreeing, in print, about where this plant belongs. Each of these was somebody’s considered answer.

  • Cerasus anglica Poit. & Turpin
  • Cerasus anglica var. praecox Poit. & Turpin
  • Cerasus arduennensis Callay
  • Cerasus avicularis Dulac
  • Cerasus avium (L.) Moench
  • Cerasus avium f. acuminatissima (Kárpáti) Soó
  • Cerasus avium f. angustifolia Dippel
  • Cerasus avium f. aspleniifolia (G.Kirchn.) S.Ya.Sokolov
  • Cerasus avium f. brevipetiolata (Kuntze) Soó
  • Cerasus avium f. decumana (K.Koch) S.Ya.Sokolov
  • Cerasus avium f. duracina (L.) S.Ya.Sokolov
  • Cerasus avium f. juliana (L.) S.Ya.Sokolov
  • Cerasus avium f. karpatii (Pénzes) Soó
  • Cerasus avium f. microcarpa (Kuntze) Soó
  • Cerasus avium f. nana (Bean) S.Ya.Sokolov
  • Cerasus avium f. nigricans (Ehrh.) Buia
  • Cerasus avium f. pendula (Ser.) S.Ya.Sokolov
  • Cerasus avium f. plena (C.K.Schneid.) S.Ya.Sokolov
  • Cerasus avium f. pyramidalis Dippel
  • Cerasus avium f. salicifolia (C.K.Schneid.) S.Ya.Sokolov
  • Cerasus avium f. salicifolia Dippel
  • Cerasus avium f. sphenophylla (Kárpáti) Soó
  • Cerasus avium f. varia (Ehrh.) Buia
  • Cerasus avium prol. duracina (L.) Kirschl.

and 192 more.

Sourcesevery claim on this page

  1. World Flora Online Plant List. accepted name, authority, classification. CC0. Retrieved 2026-07-12.
  2. iNaturalist. photographs and flowering annotations, CC0 / CC BY / CC BY-SA only. per photograph. Retrieved 2026-06-27.

We publish what we can source and we say so when we cannot. This page has no care advice, no toxicity claim and no native range, because we do not yet have those from a source we can cite.