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Amelanchier sanguinea
Also called New England Serviceberry, Huron Serviceberry, Shore Shadbush, Red Twig Shadbush, Round Leaf Juneberry, Round Leaf Serviceberry, Round Leaf Shadblow
Roundleaf serviceberry is a native North American shrub, usually grown as a multi-stemmed shrub up to about 3 m tall, valued for early spring flowers, red-tinged young twigs and sweet edible berry-like fruits. It is cold-hardy and adaptable, and is best grown in full sun to part shade in moist, well-drained soil.
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 sanguinea is a shrub that can grow up to 3 metres (9.8 ft) tall, and has edible sweet-flavored fruits that are red when young and become purple or dark-blue when they ripen. Like all Amelanchier fruit, these resemble berries, but are technically pomes.
Saskatoon serviceberry · Canadian serviceberry · Serviceberry · Low serviceberry · Allegheny serviceberry · Serviceberry
Text excerpted from the Wikipedia article Amelanchier sanguinea by its contributors, under CC BY-SA 4.0; the excerpts and the care summary drawn from them are shared under the same licence.
The care summary was written by AI (Claude, Anthropic) from the sources on this page, with general growing knowledge where they are silent. Check before relying on it.
Life form, climate and native range: World Checklist of Vascular Plants, Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (CC BY 3.0), reformatted; see Plants of the World Online.
