Plant

Pin cherry

Prunus pensylvanica
Plant
Pin cherry

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Habitat
Williston, ND
Conservation
Secure
First Observed
1806-08-10

Last specimen described in detail by Lewis. A gunshot soon after made it impossible to sit and write at length.

Journal References

15 journal entries mention Pin cherry

Jul 15 1804
Missouri River near Platte River mouth — John Ordway: July 15, 1804
...d on found Some cherries near a handsome Spring River named cherry Run2 at which we drank at the forks then followed it or one branch to the head which came out of a ...
Jul 19 1804
Missouri River near Platte River mouth — Joseph Whitehouse: July 19, 1804
...Shore at Butter run, the men pull? a Great Quantity of wild Cherrys put them in the Barrel of whisky. Roe’ 12 Miles Camp‘ on an Island neer the River Call‘ the ...
Oct 5 1804
Missouri River near Cheyenne River — John Ordway: October 5, 1804
... Dewey County. On the M. R. C. map it is shown as "Stone or Cherry Creek." 3 On this island was an abandoned Ankara village called Lahoocat. It is Dolphees Island on ...
Oct 29 1804
Clark: October 29, 1804
...rat-toe-no mook-gu (man wolf Chief) (at war) Cal-tar co ta(Cherry grows on a bush) old Chief and father to the above mentd. Chief Maw-pah'-pir-re-cos-sa tooThis ch...
Feb 25 1805
Fort Mandan, preparing for departure — Patrick Gass: February 25, 1805
...uffaloe. There is a quantity of gdosé=. _. berry and choak-cherry bi ishes on n the point, and also Oh ee eS iting rabbit berries. ee Monilay Oih. We hauled ¢ our l...
Apr 26 1805
Lewis: April 26, 1805
...h the addition of the broad leafed willow, Goosbury, choke cherry, purple currant; and honeysuckle bushis; the open bottoms border on the hills, and are covered in ...
May 12 1805
Lewis: May 12, 1805
... the face of the hills and in the little ravines. the choke cherry also grows here in the hollows and at the heads of the gullies; the choke Cherry has been in blum...
Jun 5 1805
Marias River decision camp — John Ordway: June 5, 1805
...f a kind of cotton wood which has a leaf like the leaf of a cherry, we [they] Saw wild tanzey in these bot- toms, nothing groes in the high plains but Short grass and...
Jun 9 1805
Marias River decision camp — Patrick Gass: June 9, 1805
...t fat buffaloe. There is a quantity of gooseberry and choak-cherry bushes on the point, and also some rabbit berries.
Jun 13 1805
John Ordway: June 13, 1805
...ll bottoms of cotton timber. Saw abundance of wild or choke cherry, the Goose berrys are now ripe & abound in the River bottoms. 1 On the M. R. C. map, 2,263 miles. 2...
Jun 15 1805
Great Falls of the Missouri — Joseph Whitehouse: June 15, 1805
...went a Short distance up this Stream & killed 2 Deer. choak cherrys, Goose berrys and yallow currents abound on the banks of the Streams in this country. the afternoo...
Jun 15 1805
Great Falls of the Missouri — John Ordway: June 15, 1805
...Short distance up the branch & killed 2 Deer, wild or choke cherrys Goose berrys & yallow currents abound in these bottoms, the afternoon verry warm we proceeded on p...
Jun 15 1805
Great Falls of the Missouri — Patrick Gass: June 15, 1805
...e is a great quantity of straw- berry, gooseberry and choak-cherry bushes ; and there appears to be a good deal of small cotton-wood on the banks of this creek. In th...
Jun 25 1805
Great Falls Portage — Joseph Whitehouse: June 25, 1805
... to day 2 or 3 Islands covered with cotton timber and choke cherrys. abundance of cherry yallow currents and box elder timber along the Shores. passed a village of be...
Jun 25 1805
Great Falls Portage — John Ordway: June 25, 1805
...d but a fiew flowers in the plains. Great quanties of choke cherryes Goose berrys red & yallow berry, & red purple currents on the Edges of the water, we catch great ...

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