Fr: aronie à feuilles de prunier
Provincial Status: N
Range: Boreal eNA; thr. Nfld. (except nw).
[Parents: Aronia arbutifolia × Aronia melanocarpa]
[=Mespilus prunifolia Marshall (basionym)]
[=Adenorachis atropurpurea (Britton) Nieuwl.]
[=Aronia arbutifolia L. var. atropurpurea (Britton) F.Seym.]
[=Aronia atropurpurea Britton]
[=Aronia floribunda (Lindl.) Sweet]
[=Aronia floribunda (Lindl.) Spach 1834, nom. illeg. isonym., non (Lindl.) Sweet 1826]
[=Crataegus prunifolia (Marshall) Baumg.]
[=Mespilus amelanchier L. var. prunifolia (Marshall) Castigl.]
[=Photinia floribunda (Lindl.) K.R.Robertson & J.B.Phipps]
[=Pyrus arbutifolia (L.) L.f. var. atropurpurea (Britton) B.L.Rob.]
[=Pyrus atropurpurea (Britton) L.H.Bailey]
[=Pyrus floribunda Lindl.]
[=Pyrus melanocarpa (Michx.) Willd. var. atropurpurea (Britton) Farw.]
[=Sorbus arbutifolia (L.) Heynh. var. atropurpurea (Britton) C.K.Schneid.]
[=Sorbus floribunda (Lindl.) Heynh.]
[Aronia ×prunifolia is considered to be a stabilized hybrid, which means it originated through hybridization, but is fertile and able to reproduce independent of the parental species. Since Aronia arbutifolia does not occur in NL, the range of Aronia ×prunifolia likely spread to NL after this hybrid became stabilized. Scoggan (1978) states that the Nfld. report of Aronia arbutifolia by Robinsion & von Schrenk, 1896 (reported as Pyrus arbutifolia), is based on Aronia ×prunifolia (Pyrus arbutifolia var. atropurpurea) (CAN). Labrador reports of Aronia ×prunifolia require verification. See Kartesz & Gandhi (1992b) for a discussion of nomenclatural problems in Aronia.]