Taxon: Amelanchier canadensis (L.) Medik.

See also subordinate taxa:

• Amelanchier canadensis var. canadensis (no accessions)
• Amelanchier canadensis var. obovalis (no accessions)

Common names:

• Canadian serviceberry   (Source: Zander Ency ) – English
  
• eastern shadbush   (Source: F NAmer ) – English   [Amelanchier canadensis var. obovalis]
  
• eastern shadbush   (Source: F NAmer ) – English   [Amelanchier canadensis var. canadensis]
  
• juneberry   (Source: F Penn ) – English
  
• shadbush   (Source: F Penn ) – English
  
• snowy-mespilus   (Source: Zander Ency ) – English
  
• thicket serviceberry   (Source: Trees US ) – English
  
• amélanchier du Canada   (Source: F NAmer ) – French   [Amelanchier canadensis var. canadensis]
  
• kanadische Felsenbirne   (Source: Zander Ency ) – German
  
• kanadensisk häggmispel   (Source: Vara kulturvaxt namn ) – Swedish
  

Economic importance:

• View ethnobotanical data from Duke's Phytochemical and Ethnobotanical Databases
• View ethnobotanical data from Moerman's Native American Ethnobotany Database

Distributional range:

• NORTHERN AMERICA (Check conservation status in U.S. & Canada in NatureServe Explorer database)
  Eastern Canada: Canada - New Brunswick, Nova Scotia, Prince Edward Island, Quebec [s.w.]
  Northeastern U.S.A.: United States - Connecticut, Maine, Massachusetts, New Hampshire, New Jersey, New York, Pennsylvania [s.e.], Rhode Island, Vermont
  Southeastern U.S.A.: United States - Alabama, Delaware, District of Columbia, Georgia, Maryland, North Carolina, South Carolina, Tennessee [e.], Virginia

• naturalized elsewhere

• also cultivated

References:

• Aldén, B., S. Ryman & M. Hjertson. 2009. Våra kulturväxters namn - ursprung och användning. Formas, Stockholm (Handbook on Swedish cultivated and utility plants, their names and origin).
• Chester, E. W. et al. 1993–1997. Atlas of Tennessee vascular plants.
• Clark, R. C. 1971. The woody plants of Alabama. Ann. Missouri Bot. Gard. 58:174.
• Encke, F. et al. 1984. Zander: Handwörterbuch der Pflanzennamen, 13. Auflage.
• Erhardt, W. et al. 2008. Der große Zander: Enzyklopädie der Pflanzennamen.
• FNA Editorial Committee. 1993–. Flora of North America. in press.
• Frye, C. T. 2006. Morphometric analysis of an Amelanchier (Rosaceae: Maloideae) complex on the Delmarva Peninsula (Delaware, Maryland and eastern Virginia) resolves the taxonomic identities of Amelanchier obovalis and A. canadensis. Sida 22:1027–1043.
• Gleason, H. A. & A. Cronquist. 1963. Manual of vascular plants of northeastern United States and adjacent Canada.
• Hanelt, P., ed. 2001. Mansfeld's encyclopedia of agricultural and horticultural crops. Volumes 1-6.
• IPGRI. New World Fruits Database (on-line resource).
• Landry, P. 1975. Le concept d'espèce et la taxinomie du genre Amelanchier (Rosacées). Bull. Soc. Bot. France 122:247.
• Liberty Hyde Bailey Hortorium. 1976. Hortus third.
• Little, E. L., Jr. 1979. Checklist of United States trees, Agric. Handb. 541.
• Magee, D. W. & H. E. Ahles. 1999. Flora of the Northeast. A manual of the vascular flora of New England and adjacent New York.
• Mitchell, R. S., ed. 1986. A checklist of New York state plants. New York State Mus. Bull. 458.
• Radford, A. E. et al. 1964. Manual of the vascular flora of the Carolinas.
• Rhoads, A. F. & T. A. Block. 2000. The plants of Pennsylvannia. An illustrated manual.
• Scoggan, H. J. 1978–1979. The flora of Canada, 4 vol.
• Stone, W. 1973. The plants of southern New Jersey.
• Tutin, T. G. et al., eds. 1964–1980. Flora europaea.

More:

Search AGRICOLA article citation database for citations referencing Amelanchier canadensis.

Search NCBI's Entrez search engine for PubMed citations referencing Amelanchier canadensis.

Search Biodiversity Heritage Library for historical publications referencing Amelanchier canadensis.

Synonyms:

• Amelanchier canadensis var. oblongifolia Torr. & A. Gray [= Amelanchier canadensis var. canadensis]
  
• Amelanchier oblongifolia (Torr. & A. Gray) M. Roem. [= Amelanchier canadensis var. canadensis]
  
• (≡) Mespilus canadensis L. (basionym)
  
• (≡) Pyrus canadensis (L.) Farw.
  

Check other web resources for Amelanchier canadensis (L.) Medik.:

• Flora Europaea: Database of European Plants (ESFEDS)
• Flora of North America: Collaborative Floristic Effort of North American Botanists
• PLANTS: USDA-NRCS Database of Plants of the United States and its Territories
• BONAP: North American Plant Atlas of the Biota of North America Program
• New World Fruits Database: Online database from Bioversity International
• TROPICOS: Nomenclatural and Specimen Database of the Missouri Botanical Garden
• ePIC: Electronic Plant Information Centre of Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew
• AGRICOLA: Article Citation Database or NAL Catalog of USDA's National Agricultural Library
• Entrez: NCBI's search engine for PubMed citations, GenBank sequences, etc.

Images:

• Seed: U.S. National Seed Herbarium image

More:

• Check PlantSystematics.org for additional images
• Images Note: Be advised that their identity may be inaccurate. Proper identification of a plant may require specialized taxonomic knowledge or comparison with properly documented herbarium material.

Abbreviations & symbols in GRIN Taxonomy

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