Prunus glandulosaThunb.

flowering almond

WFO wfo-0001013856 Accepted WFO 2026-06 8 photographs CC BY

Plate 1 figs. a–h · 5 observations

This species has been photographed under an open licence only 5 times, so some figures below are different views of the same plant, taken on the same day, rather than different individuals. They are usually different parts of it: the leaf, the flower, the bark.

Prunus glandulosa, photographed by Repina Tatyana
fig. a Repina Tatyana, CC BY 4.0 / 2020-05-12 / obs. 72569110
Prunus glandulosa, photographed by Repina Tatyana
fig. b Repina Tatyana, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 38458970
Prunus glandulosa, photographed by Repina Tatyana
fig. c Repina Tatyana, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 38375198
Prunus glandulosa, photographed by Repina Tatyana
fig. d Repina Tatyana, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 38393043
Prunus glandulosa, photographed by Repina Tatyana
fig. e Repina Tatyana, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 72569085
Prunus glandulosa, photographed by Repina Tatyana
fig. f Repina Tatyana, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 38375298
Prunus glandulosa, photographed by Sandy Wolkenberg
fig. g Sandy Wolkenberg, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 66726450
Prunus glandulosa, photographed by Sandy Wolkenberg
fig. h Sandy Wolkenberg, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 66726474

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Native range 4 botanical countries

Regions where Prunus glandulosa is native: China North-Central, China South-Central, China Southeast, Korea China North-CentralChina South-CentralChina Southeast Korea
Native distribution of Prunus glandulosa, after Kew’s World Checklist of Vascular Plants. Introduced, extinct and doubtful records are excluded, so this is where the plant is from, not everywhere it now grows. Regions too small to draw at this scale are marked with a dot.
RegionTDWG codeContinent
China North-Central CHN ASIA-TEMPERATE
China South-Central CHC
China Southeast CHS
Korea KOR

Region boundaries approximated from Natural Earth (public domain) and mapped to TDWG World Geographical Scheme for Recording Plant Distributions (WGSRPD) level-3 botanical countries (Brummitt 2001). Indicative, not the official WGSRPD geometry.

Where it actually grows measured, from 47 observations

Condition 5th percentile Median 95th percentile
Coldest month, mean daily low -21.8 °C -9.4 °C 3.3 °C
Warmest month, mean daily high 24.4 °C 27.0 °C 32.2 °C
Annual rainfall 654 mm 1,139 mm 1,489 mm
Rainfall in the driest quarter 31 mm 144 mm 288 mm

It is found where winters are severely cold. This is not care advice and it is not a forecast. It is a measurement: we sampled the climate at every one of the 47 research-grade observations of Prunus glandulosa that carry a coordinate, and this is the range those places actually span. The 5th and 95th percentiles are used rather than the minimum and maximum, because a single cultivated specimen in a heated conservatory should not widen a tropical plant's range to the Arctic.

This is not a hardiness zone. A USDA zone is the average annual extreme minimum temperature. The figure above is the mean daily minimum of the coldest month, which is a different quantity and is typically far warmer. Reading one as the other would place a plant several zones too warm, so we do not publish a hardiness zone, because we do not have one.

Also published as 39 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.

  • Amygdalus pumila L.
  • Armeniaca pumila (L.) Dum.Cours.
  • Cerasus glandulosa (Thunb.) Loisel.
  • Cerasus glandulosa f. alba (Koehne) S.Ya.Sokolov
  • Cerasus glandulosa f. albiplena (Koehne) S.Ya.Sokolov
  • Cerasus glandulosa f. rosea (Koehne) S.Ya.Sokolov
  • Cerasus glandulosa f. sinensis (Pers.) S.Ya.Sokolov
  • Cerasus glandulosa var. trichostyla (Koehne) J.X.Yang
  • Cerasus japonica var. glandulosa (Thunb.) Kom. & Aliss.
  • Cerasus japonica var. multiplex Ser.
  • Cerasus sinensis Spach
  • Emplectocladus glandulosus (Thunb.) Dayton
  • Microcerasus glandulosa (Thunb.) M.Roem.
  • Microcerasus sinensis M.Roem.
  • Persica pumila (L.) Borkh.
  • Prunus glandulosa f. albiplena Koehne
  • Prunus glandulosa f. faberi Koehne
  • Prunus glandulosa f. paokangensis (C.K.Schneid.) Koehne
  • Prunus glandulosa f. sieboldiana Shirai ex Koehne
  • Prunus glandulosa f. sinensis (Pers.) Koehne
  • Prunus glandulosa subf. alba Koehne
  • Prunus glandulosa subf. rosea Koehne
  • Prunus glandulosa var. alba Skvortsov
  • Prunus glandulosa var. albiplena (Koehne) Nakai

and 15 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.
  3. Wikidata. common name (P1843), joined on the World Flora Online identifier (P7715). CC0. Retrieved 2026-07-13.
  4. Kew, World Checklist of Vascular Plants (WCVP v16). native distribution by TDWG level-3 botanical country, and life form. CC BY 3.0. Retrieved 2026-06-04.

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