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The Plum River is a tributary of the Mississippi River, about 46.6 miles (75.0 km) long, [1] in northwestern Illinois in the United States. [2] It rises in Jo Daviess County and flows generally south-southwestwardly into Carroll County , where it joins the Mississippi at Savanna .
Addison Creek; Apple River; Beaucoup Creek; Beaver Creek; Big Bureau Creek; Big Muddy River; Boneyard Creek; Bonpas Creek; Bubbly Creek; Buffalo Creek; Butterfield Creek
P. nigra has the same number of chromosomes as P. salicina, the cultivated Japanese plum, and so the two cross-pollinate readily. [17] Breeding work in the 20th century resulted in improved P. nigra x salicina hybrid varieties that retain the high quality of Japanese plums and the hardiness of wild Canada plums, such as "Pembina", "Superior ...
Prunus americana, commonly called the American plum, [7] wild plum, or Marshall's large yellow sweet plum, is a species of Prunus native to North America from Saskatchewan and Idaho south to New Mexico and east to Québec, Maine and Florida. [8] Prunus americana has often been planted outside its native range and sometimes escapes cultivation. [9]
Watersheds of Illinois is a list of basins or catchment areas into which the State of Illinois can be divided based on the place to which water flows.. At the simplest level, in pre-settlement times, Illinois had two watersheds: the Mississippi River and Lake Michigan, with almost the entire State draining to the Mississippi, except for a small area within a few miles of the Lake.
Prunus umbellata, called flatwoods plum, hog plum and sloe plum, is a plum species native to the United States from Virginia, south to Florida, and west to Texas. [3] [4] Prunus umbellata can reach 6.1 meters (20 feet) in height with a 4.6 m (15 ft) spread. It has alternate serrate green leaves that turn yellow in autumn. Flowers are white ...
Prunus hortulana, called the hortulan plum [3] and wild goose plum, [3] is a fruit shrub in the rose family found in the central United States in: Arkansas, Iowa ...
Prunus angustifolia, known commonly as Chickasaw plum, Cherokee plum, Florida sand plum, sandhill plum, or sand plum, [3] is a North American species of plum-bearing tree. . It was originally cultivated by Native Americans before the arrival of Europe