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It may be a matter of labeling with a different common or botanical name. There are numerous choke cherry trees right here around me and all through this area. I call them wild cherries and they are a bonanza for the birds, deer and yellow jackets in my yard.
If this is in fact the same species, it's range covers a great deal of the US.
I really enjoy your articles. I live in Zone 8, north Louisiana, and enjoyed a large choke cherry tree on our farm when I was growing up-- except for when I fell out of it and got a large gash on my head. We ate bushels of them, seeds and all. The green ones make great "bullets" for peashooters. When it hardened, we chewed the gummy sap just like sweetgum sap. There is a tree in the front yard of our new home that the squirrels and birds enjoy as much as we children did years ago. Actually, they're all over our woods in Louisiana. What we call choke cherries down here is an herbaceous plant that gets about 3-4 feet tall, has large leaves similar to poke salad, and fruit that looks almost identical to the tree's fruit but slightly larger. It is very poisonous.
