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Amelanchier sanguinea (Pursh) DC.

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Article from Bean's Trees and Shrubs Hardy in the British Isles

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'Amelanchier sanguinea' from the website Trees and Shrubs Online (treesandshrubsonline.org/articles/amelanchier/amelanchier-sanguinea/). Accessed 2025-03-24.

Family

  • Rosaceae

Genus

Synonyms

  • Pyrus sanguinea Pursh
  • A. rotundifolia Roem.

Glossary

acute
Sharply pointed.
apex
(pl. apices) Tip. apical At the apex.
glabrous
Lacking hairs smooth. glabrescent Becoming hairless.
glaucous
Grey-blue often from superficial layer of wax (bloom).
ovary
Lowest part of the carpel containing the ovules; later developing into the fruit.

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Credits

Article from Bean's Trees and Shrubs Hardy in the British Isles

Recommended citation
'Amelanchier sanguinea' from the website Trees and Shrubs Online (treesandshrubsonline.org/articles/amelanchier/amelanchier-sanguinea/). Accessed 2025-03-24.

A deciduous shrub 3 to 10 ft high, straggling or erect, sometimes spreading by suckers and forming dense thickets of stems; or a small tree to 20 ft high. Leaves oval or oblong to almost rounded, 1 to 23⁄4 in. long, blunt or acute at the apex, densely downy beneath when unfolding, later glabrous, margins rather coarsely toothed almost to the base of the leaf. Flowers white, to about 11⁄4 in. wide, in loose racemes; top of ovary densely downy. Fruit juicy, purplish black, with a glaucous tinge.

Native of eastern N. America from S. Quebec to N. Carolina.

A gaspensis (Wieg.) Fern.

Synonyms
A. sanguinea var. gaspensis Wieg

This species is confined to a small area of Canada around the St Lawrence estuary. It is unusual in bearing its flowers when the leaves are fully expanded; the leaves, too, are more rounded at the apex than in A. sanguinea, truncate at the base, and the flowers smaller, to {3/4} in. wide at the most.

var. grandiflora (Wieg.) Rehd.

Synonyms
A. sanguinea f. grandiflora Wieg. A. amabilis Wieg

Flowers to 1{3/4} in. across, the lowermost on stalks up to 1{3/5} in. long. Such forms are considered by Jones (op. cit.) to be part of the normal variation of the species.

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