Downy Serviceberry Native Shrub Is Amelanchier Arborea

Downy Serviceberry

The Arkansas Native Plant Society sends a monthly e-mail to subscribers who are interested inwards native plants. Downy Serviceberry was the theme of the Feb 28 2018 newsletter. At the link, await correct together with you'll meet the sign-up box. I read 80% of them since I'm ever on the sentry for an instruction on native plants for our surface area together with ONPS doesn't convey anything similar this. 

With branching together with suckers they accomplish xv past times xv feet inwards part-shade. Fall color together with scented flowers. Bird habitat.

"Downy serviceberry, a deciduous tree to large shrub (referred to every bit “tree” herein), tends to convey several trunks of varying size and, when younger, may sprout nearby suckers. 
Mature trees inwards sum Sun convey a thickly branched, rounded crown, spell those inwards shadier understories tend to endure tall with irregular branching. An average size large tree is xv to 25 feet tall (state champion tree is 44 feet tall). 
Branches tend to diverge from the bring upwards branch at a abrupt upward angle. Spring twigs, greenish together with covered with long white hairs, grow from previous year’s brownish to purplish, glabrous stems. Older twigs are polish with white lenticels scattered nigh the ash-gray slender branches. Younger portions of trunks are polish with splotches of grays together with whites on a low-cal grayness background. Older trunks are a night grayness with shallow fissures."

"Downy serviceberry is the most widespread species of the genus inwards North America, constitute throughout the eastern the United States of America from Texas to Minnesota together with thence due east together with S to the Atlantic together with Gulf coasts. Common names include mutual serviceberry, sarvisberry, sarvis, shadbush together with Juneberry.

Habitats of downy serviceberry include dry out to mesic, well-drained ,upland woodlands together with forests, inwards sum to partial Sun light. It is particularly mutual on ridgetops together with rocky slopes. It frequently occurs every bit an understory tree with diverse hardwoods together with pine. Downy serviceberry readily hybridizes with other Amelanchier species where ranges overlap. 

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Easy to grow merely is non reliable nether high stress conditions.  No serious affliction problems; occasional insect problems.  Root suckers require to endure removed to avoid a shrubby growth.  Rarely requires pruning.

This species is frequently sold inwards the plant nursery merchandise every bit Amelanchier canadensis which is inwards fact a split species.  Many cultivars are available commercially.  

TN Nursery sells them v for $43. For gratuitous transportation piece of job inwards the code FREESHIP

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