Prunus angustifolia (Chickasaw Plum)

Prunus angustifolia (Chickasaw Plum)Chickasaw Plum is an early bloomer featuring sweet scented white flowers. Blooms are followed by fruit that can be eaten fresh or used in baking. Birds and mammals eat the fruit. Various insects visit the flowers. It provides cover and nesting sites for wildlife, including northern bobwhite, painted bunting, Bell's vireo, brown thrasher and loggerhead shrike. It is important to lesser prairie chickens for resting, escape, and thermal cover. Foliage

In late spring it produces dense clusters of small purple flowers that attract native bees in large numbers

give it a simple haircut and it will come back reinvigorated and ready to bloom again

It also plays well with others and can be interplanted with shrubby perennials such as Shrubby Boneset

This adaptable plant is not fussy about soil as long as it has good drainage

and stream bottoms

and ornamental blooms and fruit

well-drained soil in full sun to part shade

It is drought tolerant and deer resistant

depending on your preference

Its lacey leaves have a citrus scent when crushed

In cultivation it offers the perfect amount of bright

ground birds and insect eating birds