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Taxon

Aronia melanocarpa (Michx.) Elliott

Protologue Sketch Bot. S. Carolina [Elliott] 1(6): 557. 1821 [early ? 1821]BHL pageIPNI
AcceptedGBIF
Predicted not threatened
Aronia melanocarpa--CA. UC Berkeley Bot. Gdn. 19 Sep 03. 091.jpg

Aronia melanocarpa--CA. UC Berkeley Bot. Gdn. 19 Sep 03. 091.jpg

By Christopher Davidson

CC-BY-NC-SA-4.0

Aronia melanocarpa, 85.0623--CA. UC Berkeley Bot. Gdn. 19 Sep 03. 089.jpg

Aronia melanocarpa, 85.0623--CA. UC Berkeley Bot. Gdn. 19 Sep 03. 089.jpg

By Christopher Davidson

CC-BY-NC-SA-4.0

Native to 36 botanical countries across Northern America; introduced into Great Britain (source: POWO). Flora of the World documents 1 occurrence across 1 country.

Distribution

Distribution from Plants of the World Online (POWO). View the accepted name on POWO

Occurrences

85.0623

September 19, 2003

Location

United States, California, Alameda County (Berkeley, UC Berkeley Botanical Garden)

37.87544, -122.238724

Location Remarks

Strawberry Canyon, University of California campus, city of Berkeley

Collectors

No collectors specified

Classification

Kingdom

Plantae

Phylum

Tracheophyta

Class

Magnoliopsida

Order

Rosales

Family

Rosaceae

Genus

Aronia

Specific Epithet

melanocarpa

Authorship

(Michx.) Elliott

Taxonomic Opinions

GBIFWFOPOWO

Conservation (EDGE)

What is EDGE?

Evolutionary distinctiveness

Lower

ED 1.6

Part of a well-represented branch of the plant tree of life, with many close relatives.

Threat status

Predicted not threatened

Modelled estimate

EDGE score

0.1

Global rank

#230,277 of 335,497

Top 69%

Extinction probability

10%

Source: Flowering plants EDGE assessment →