Rosaceae
Klamath plum
Prunus subcordata
- Family
- Rosaceae
- Genus
- Prunus
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Common names
By language (4)
- Chinese
- 心叶李, 心葉李
- English
- Klamath plum
- Hebrew
- שזיף בר קליפורני
- Swedish
- Kalmatplommon
Synonyms
- Prunus oregana Greene
- Prunus subcordata subsp. kelloggii (Lemmon) A.E.Murray
- Prunus subcordata subsp. oregana (Greene) A.E.Murray
- Prunus subcordata subsp. rubicunda (Jeps.) A.E.Murray
- Prunus subcordata var. kelloggii Lemmon
- Prunus subcordata var. oregana (Greene) W.Wight ex M.Peck
- Prunus subcordata var. rubicunda Jeps.
- Prunus subcordata var. subcordata
Flowers
- Flower colour
- white (USDA PLANTS Database)
Characteristics
- Growth habit
- Shrub, Tree
- Lifespan
- Perennial
- In the US and Canada
- Lower 48 states: native
Toxicity: Slight, as listed by the USDA PLANTS Database (2025-05-29). USDA rates how toxic a plant is to people or livestock; it is not a pet-safety rating, so ask a vet or poison line if a pet or child ate it.
Photos
Photo: Stan Shebs, CC BY-SA 3.0, from Wikimedia Commons 
Photo: Stan Shebs, CC BY-SA 3.0, from Wikimedia Commons 
Photo: Stan Shebs, CC BY-SA 3.0, from Wikimedia Commons 
Photo: Stan Shebs, CC BY-SA 3.0, from Wikimedia Commons 
Photo: Franco Folini from San Francisco, USA, CC BY-SA 2.0, from Wikimedia Commons
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Sources: classification, synonyms from World Flora Online Plant List (2026-06, CC0 1.0); common names, popularity from Wikidata (2026-10-26, CC0 1.0); common names, US characteristics from USDA PLANTS Database (2025-05-29, CC0 1.0). About our plant data.