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[[image:Amelanchier canadensis flower.jpg|thumb|left|Closeup of flowers]] '''''Amelanchier canadensis''''' ('''Canadian serviceberry''', '''Juneberry''', '''Shadblow Serviceberry''', '''Shadblow''', '''Shadbush''', '''Shadbush Serviceberry''', '''Sugarplum''', '''Thicket Serviceberry'''; [[syn.]] ''Amelanchier canadensis'' (L.) Medik. var. ''subintegra'' Fern., ''Amelanchier lucida'' Fern. <ref>[http://plants.usda.gov/java/profile?symbol=AMCA4 ''Amelanchier canadensis''] at [http://plants.usda.gov/ USDA PLANTS Database].</ref>) is a [[medicinal plant|medicinal]] <ref>[http://www.pfaf.org/database/plants.php?Amelanchier+canadensis''Amelanchier canadensis''] at [[Plants For A Future]]</ref>, food and [[ornamental plant]] <ref>{{cite book | author=[[L. H. Bailey|Bailey, L. H.]] | title=[http://www.gutenberg.org/etext/9550 Manual of Gardening (Second Edition)] | year=[[2005]] | publisher=[[Project Gutenberg|Project Gutenberg Literary Archive Foundation]]}}</ref> <ref>{{cite book | author=[[Neltje Blanchan|Blanchan, Neltje]] | title=[[Wild Flowers: An Aid to Knowledge of our Wild Flowers and their Insect Visitors]] | year=[[2002]] | publisher=[[Project Gutenberg|Project Gutenberg Literary Archive Foundation]]}} </ref> native to [[Canada]] and the [[United States]]. {{Inc| Amelanchier canadensis, Medikus (A. Botryàpium, Borkh. A. canadénsis var. Botryàpium, Torr. & Gray. A. canadénsis var. tomentúla, Sarg.). Service-berry. Bushy tree, fastigiately branched: st. solitary or few, sometimes shrubby : Lvs. generally obovate, less often ovate, oval or oblong, acute or acuminate, usually cordate at the base, 1½-3½ in. long, sharply serrate quite or nearly to the base, densely white-tomentose beneath when young, less so above, tomentum usually partly persistent: racemes rather dense, nodding, silky-tomentose; petals linear or linear-oblong, about ½ in. long; top of ovary glabrous or slightly hairy: fr. maroon- purple, tasteless. May, early, before the Lvs. ; fr. in June. Maine to Iowa, Mo. and south to Ga. and La.—This is the only species with the Lvs. tomentose on both surfaces when young. }} {{Inc| Amelanchier oblongifolia, Roem. (A. canadénsis var. oblongifolia, Torr. & Gray. A. Botryàpium, Brit. & Brown, in part. A.obovàlis, Ashe.). Shrub, with slender upright sts. growing in rather dense clumps, but not stoloniferous, to 25 ft. : Lvs. oblong to obovate-oblong, usually rounded at the base, and rounded or acute at the apex, 1¼-2½ in. long, very finely serrate nearly or quite to the base, white-tomentose beneath when young: racemes short, dense and upright, silky-tomentose; petals obovate-oblong to oblanceolate or linear, about ⅓ in. long; top of ovary glabrous or sometimes slightly woolly; fr. nearly black, with bloom, sweet. May, with A. teems; fr. in June. Maine to S. C.—This differs from all other species except A. ovalis and A. Bartramiana in having the sépals on the immature fr. upright or only slightly spreading; in the other species they are recurved. }} ==Cultivation== ===Propagation=== ===Pests and diseases=== ==Varieties== ==Gallery== <gallery perrow=5> Image:Upload.png| photo 1 Image:Upload.png| photo 2 Image:Upload.png| photo 3 </gallery> ==References== <references/> *[[Standard Cyclopedia of Horticulture]], by L. H. Bailey, MacMillan Co., 1963    ==External links== *{{wplink}} {{stub}} __NOTOC__

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