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Common Pear (Pyrus communis L.)

Also known as European pear.

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↑Summary

Most cultivated pears in the West are from this species. Native to Europe and Western Asia, this tree has become established across North America, usually persisting mostly around abandoned orchards.

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Introduced or Not Present

This tentative map is based on our own research. It may have limited data on Canada and/or Mexico, and there is some subjectivity in our assignment of plants as introduced vs. expanded. Read more in this blog post.

Although this plant occurs somewhere in each of these regions, it may only occur in a small part of some or all of them.

This species is also introduced in Canada and Mexico; we have yet to build these portions of its map.

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Callery Pear (Pyrus calleryana)
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↑Habitat

In North America, mostly found in anthropogenic habitats, including forest edges, meadows, and abandoned fields, most frequently around abandoned orchards. Mostly limited to open, high-light habitats.

The species this species is derived from (probably originally as a hybrid) grow in their native range as a pioneer species in sunny, open habitats, including on dry soils, where there is little competition from other woody plants.