Mystery Wyoming fruiting shrub: id?

What could it be? I am thinking chokecherry? This is along a dried up beaver pond, under some aspen trees, surrounded by raspberries and roses.

Hi Miles-

Do the berries have silvery flakes or speckles on them?

Thanks!
Mariamne

Hi Mariamne, I didn't notice any silvery flakes or speckles. The bark does though. I will have to take a closer look next month when I get up on the mountain.

Are there any shrubby cherry species? The leaves aren't quite right, but the bark and fruit looks 'cherryish'.

Single pit? Do the leaves have a serrated edge? The chokecherry variety I am familar with from around Casper and Douglas were more purple.

It is chokecherry (Prunus virginiana). Fruit should ripen black although some populations ripen red. They are usually too astringent to eat fresh but make excellent jelly or syrup, essentially unset jelly for pancakes. Occasionally they hang on the trees for a couple of months without drying out or eaten by birds and after a month of frost they get quite sweet. Probably the most common wild shrub in my area, northern great plains.

Thanks for all of the replies. I will see if they have ripened to a different color when I get up there at the end of September. If they are chokecherries I will take the fruit and plant them in other areas to get a few more growing!