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Amelanchier is a genus of about 20 species of deciduous-leaved shrubs and small trees in the rose family, native to temperate regions of the Northern Hemisphere. Some species are known as shadbush, shadwood, serviceberry, juneberry, saskatoon, or chuckley pear, and produce edible berries.
Amelanchier arborea, also known as downy serviceberry, Juneberry, or sarvisberry, is a native tree of eastern North America. It has white flowers, edible red fruits, and various common names derived from its blooming time or uses.
Amelanchier laevis, the smooth shadbush, smooth serviceberry or Allegheny serviceberry, is a North American species of tree in the rose family Rosaceae, growing up to 9 metres (30 ft) tall. It is native to eastern Canada and the eastern United States , from Newfoundland west to Ontario , Minnesota , and Iowa , south as far as Georgia and Alabama .
Amelanchier × grandiflora, the serviceberry, is a small deciduous flowering tree or large shrub, a hybrid of garden origin between A. arborea and A. laevis, in the family Rosaceae. It produces white flowers and small red to purple edible fruits. [1] The Latin specific epithet grandiflora means "large-flowered". [2]
Amelanchier alnifolia, the saskatoon berry, Pacific serviceberry, western serviceberry, western shadbush, or western juneberry, [2] is a shrub native to North America. It is a member of the rose family , and bears an edible berry-like fruit.
Amelanchier canadensis (bilberry, [2] Canadian serviceberry, chuckle-berry, currant-tree, [3] juneberry, shad-blow serviceberry, shad-blow, shadbush, shadbush serviceberry, sugarplum, thicket serviceberry) is a species of Amelanchier native to eastern North America in Canada from Newfoundland west to southern Ontario, and in the United States from Maine south to Alabama.
Amelanchier sanguinea, known as red-twigged shadbush or roundleaf serviceberry, is a shrub native to eastern and central North America. Its native range stretches from New Brunswick to Saskatchewan south as far as northern Georgia. It is most common in eastern Canada, the northeastern United States, and the Great Lakes region.
Amelanchier utahensis, also known as Utah serviceberry, is a native shrub or small tree in western North America. It has white flowers, edible fruits, and is resistant to fire, drought, and frost.