Pyne’s ground plum

Description:

These are the fruits. They are oblong plum-shaped fruits. Its showy purple flowers are produced in early spring, followed by fruits in early summer, which, when mature, are reddish above and yellow below

Habitat:

Cedar glade. Endemic to the cedar glades of Middle Tennessee. These glades occur on rocky limestone outcrops with exposed bedrock or very shallow soil, where trees are largely unable to grow.

Notes:

Known only from three natural locations, and a recently introduced fourth location, within Rutherford County in Tennessee's Central Basin, U.S.