Synonym

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Meaning of Scientific Name

Pyrus: ancient name for Pear; calleryana: named for Joseph Callery, 19th century French missionary in China

Native Plant

No

Life Form

Perennial Tree, Deciduous, Broad-leaf

Phenology (Flowering Period)

Spring

Physiographic Province

  ☑ Piedmont  ☑ Coastal Plain

Habitat

Cultivated and escaping to fields, thickets and roadsides

State Status

Non-native

Piedmont Status

Non-native

Coastal Plain Status

Non-native

Global Rank

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Federal Status

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Invasive

Yes

Invasive Watchlist

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Additional Info

Cultivars of the Callery pear are widely planted as ornamentals, such as the "Bradford" pear. Cultivars are generally self-sterile (unable to produce fertile seed when self-pollinated or cross-pollinated with another tree of the same cultivar). However, if different cultivars of Callery pears are growing in close proximity to one another, they can produce fertile seeds. Callery pear is well established outside of cultivation throughout the state and these “wild” plants are descendants of multiple genotypes from various cultivars of Pyrus calleryana.