pome fruit plant chokecherry plant common chokeberry plant chokecherry PLANTS:PRVI Prunus virginiana, commonly called bitter-berry, chokecherry, Virginia bird cherry and western chokecherry (also western chokecherry for *Prunus virginiana* var. *demissa*), is a species of bird cherry (*Prunus* subgenus *Padus*) native to North America; the natural historic range of *Prunus virginiana* includes most of the continent, except for the far north and far south. bitter-berry chokeberry prunus virginiana virginia bird cherry virginia chokeberry