Those looking for a spring-flowering native shrub that can form a hedge or be cultivated as a small tree may want to look no further than Prunus virginiana, commonly known as chokecherry.

The eastern tent caterpillar normally favors black cherry, choke cherry, scrub apple trees and many species of ornamentals in the family Rosaceae. When numerous, the insect defoliates many other fruit ...

The chokecherry (Prunus virginiana) is a large shrub or small tree, usually found growing in small clusters. Fruiting bushes typically measure 1 to 3 inches in diameter and 8 to 15 feet tall.