| Author | (L.) Batsch | |
| Distribution | Mostly Sandhills, Piedmont, and Mountains, scarce on the Coastal Plain.
Native of eastern Asia; in N.A. -- N.S. to Ont., south to FL and TX; scattered westward. | |
| Abundance | Fairly common in most of the state, but rare in the Coastal Plain. Website editors wonder if most NC records are of persisting trees, rather than actual established/reproducing plants. | |
| Habitat | Roadsides, old fields, disturbed woodlands, established near long-abandoned homesites and farmyards. | |
| Phenology | Flowering March-April; fruiting June-August. | |
| Identification | The Peach is well-known to most Carolinians, with its showy pink flowers and very large, tasty fruits. The leaves tend to be relatively longer compared to width of our other alien Prunus species -- i.e., lanceolate to narrowly elliptical, with blunt teeth, glabrous when mature. | |
| Taxonomic Comments | By some treated as Pyrus persica.
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| State Rank | SE | |
| Global Rank | G5 | |
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