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ROSE FAMILY (ROSACEAE) |
Bird food
- Crataegus fruit: cardinals, catbirds, cedar waxwings, flickers, mockingbirds, rose-breasted grosbeaks, others
- Crataegus nectar: hummingbirds
- Parsley haw: blue jays
- Rubus fruit: blue jays, bluebirds, brown thrashers, cardinals, catbirds, flycatchers, kingbirds, meadowlarks, mockingbirds, red-winged blackbirds, sandhill cranes, song sparrows, summer tanagers, titmice, towhees, wood thrushes, woodpeckers, many others
- Serviceberry fruit: bluebirds, catbirds, chickadees, downy woodpeckers, kingbirds, flickers, mockingbirds, orioles, titmice, towhees, wood thrushes, others
- Southern crabapple fruit: blue jays, bluebirds, mockingbirds, titmice, woodpeckers, others
- Swamp rose fruit: bobwhites
- Wild cherry fruit: blue jays, cardinals, catbirds, flickers, mockingbirds, orioles, song sparrows, towhees, white-throated sparrows, tanagers, woodpeckers, many others
- Wild plum: blue jays, brown thrashers, mockingbirds, red-headed woodpeckers
- Tent caterpillars on wild cherry trees: yellow-billed cuckoos (spring)
Butterfly larval food
Butterfly nectar food
Wildlife food
Wildlife shelter
- Crataegus: good cover and nesting sites
- Prunus: good cover and nesting sites
- Rubus: excellent cover
- Swamp rose: nesting sites
NOTE: The leaves, twigs, bark, and wilted foliage of the Wild cherry are highly toxic to animals. |
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name | area | flower & fruit | season | other |
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Serviceberry Amelanchier arborea | N | white-pinkish reddish-purple | Sp Su | s/t |
Summer haw Crataegus flava | NC | white red | Sp SpSu | t |
Parsley haw Crataegus marshallii | NC | white, pink red | Sp F | t |
Southern crabapple Malus angustifolia | N | pink yellowish | Sp Su | s/t |
Wild plum Prunus americana | NC | white red | Sp Su | t |
Chickasaw plum Prunus angustifolia | NC | white red-yellow | Sp Su | s/t |
Wild cherry Prunus serotina | NC | white red-black | Sp Su | t, ta |
Flatwoods plum Prunus umbellata | NC | white red, yellow | Sp Su | s/t |
Swamp rose Rosa palustris | NC | pink red | Sp F | p |
Highbush blackberry Rubus argutus | NC | pink, white black | SpSu Su | s |
Sand blackberry Rubus cuneifolius | NCS | white black | SpSu Su | s |
Southern dewberry Rubus trivialis | NCS | pink, white black | SpSu Su | s |
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