![]() ![]() Amelanchier x grandflora 'Autumn Sunset'.Profile Video: See this plant in the following landscape: Cultivars / Varieties: VIDEO Created by Elisabeth Meyer for " Edibles, Bulbs, and Houseplants" a plant identification course offered in partnership with Longwood Gardens. Its suckering habit may also lead to the plant being somewhat weedy. This plant is slow to root after transplant. Diseases affecting the plant are cedar apple rust, glomerella leaf spot-fruit rot, fire blight, powdery mildew, witches' broom, and leaf blight. Insects, Diseases and Other Plant Problems: Insects include leaf miner, pear sawfly, spider mites, aphids, peach borer, and scale insects. It is sometimes planted as an ornamental for the showy clusters of flowers and is commonly sold in the nursery trade as Amelanchier canadensis, although canadensis is, in fact, a shrubby East Coast species. It attracts bees, butterflies, and other pollinators, as well as songbirds and small mammals.īecause of its cultural versatility, downy serviceberry also fills a wide variety of garden uses in any location, from specimen to border, barrier, mass planting, or understory tree. The berries have some resemblance to blueberries. The small tree produces a red to purple berry that matures in the late summer to fall. As the tree ages, long, vertical splits and furrows develop. In the spring, fragrant five-petaled, white flowers mature, followed by finely toothed leaves with a hairy underside. Typically growing 15 to 25 feet tall with a narrow, rounded form, it can reach heights of 40 feet in the wild. It has a multistemmed habit as a small tree or, if the root suckers are not removed, it will attain a more shrubby like form. It is not frost tender.ĭowny serviceberry grows in a wide range of cultural conditions: in full sun to partial shade and acidic to neutral, sandy, loam, or clay soil that is moist and well drained, but occasionally wet or dry. It typically grows on wooded slopes and cliffs, open woods, wooded bluffs, rocky woodlands, limestone glades, riverbanks, and edges of swamps. Phonetic Spelling am-uh-LAN-kee-er ar-bor-EE-ah Descriptionĭowny serviceberry, is a deciduous tree in the Rosaceae (rose) family, native to eastern North America, and found throughout North Carolina.
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