sand cherry

Related to sand cherry: Prunus pumila, Prunus besseyi, Western sand cherry

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sand cherry - small straggling American cherry growing on sandy soil and having minute scarcely edible purplish-black fruit

Prunus cuneata, Prunus pumila, Prunus pumilla susquehanae, Prunus susquehanae

genus Prunus, Prunus - a genus of shrubs and trees of the family Rosaceae that is widely distributed in temperate regions

bush, shrub - a low woody perennial plant usually having several major stems

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I have watered the red huckleberry, the sand cherry and the nettle-tree, the red pine and the black ash, the white grape and the yellow violet, which might have withered else in dry seasons.

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'Pawnee Buttes' sand cherry (Prunus besseyi), a ground-cover form of the Rocky Mountain native, stays under 18 inches tall but can spread to 6 feet.

Gardenguide: A marriage of water, stone, and plants

Lake Boulevard in Tahoe Vista, has a wide selection of flowering plants (columbines are especially noteworthy) as well as fruiting shrubs--chokecherry, cranberry bush, elderberry, and sand cherry. Open 8:30 to 5:30 Mondays through Saturdays, 9 to 5:30 Sundays.