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As its name implies, this is a stoloniferous species... Thus, any serviceberry growing in rhizomatous colonies in dry/upland sites should be this species, as opposed to A. obovalis, a generally obligate wetland and wetland ecotone shrub. Read more at Vascular Plants of North Carolina.

SYNONYMOUS WITH PLANTS NATIONAL DATABASE:
Amelanchier stolonifera   FAMILY Rosaceae

SYNONYMOUS WITH Flora of North America

Amelanchier spicata

SYNONYMOUS WITH Floristic synthesis of North America. BONAP (Kartesz, 2010)

Amelanchier spicata

SYNONYMOUS WITH VASCULAR FLORA OF THE CAROLINAS (Radford, Ahles, & Bell, 1968) 097-21-005:

Amelanchier spicata   FAMILY Rosaceae

SYNONYMOUS WITH Manual of the Southeastern Flora (Small, 1933, 1938)

Amelanchier stolonifera

COMMON NAME:
Running Serviceberry, Dwarf Serviceberry, Thicket Shadbush

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Ron Lance    rwl70_a

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Leaves oval to suborbicular. Fruit a berrylike pome, per Native Shrubs and Woody Vines of the Southeast (Foote & Jones, 1989).

WEAKLEY'S FLORA OF THE SOUTHEASTERN US (4/24/22):
Amelanchier spicata   FAMILY Rosaceae

SYNONYMOUS WITH PLANTS NATIONAL DATABASE:
Amelanchier stolonifera   FAMILY Rosaceae

SYNONYMOUS WITH Flora of North America
Amelanchier spicata

SYNONYMOUS WITH Floristic synthesis of North America. BONAP (Kartesz, 2010)
Amelanchier spicata

SYNONYMOUS WITH VASCULAR FLORA OF THE CAROLINAS (Radford, Ahles, & Bell, 1968) 097-21-005:
Amelanchier spicata   FAMILY Rosaceae

SYNONYMOUS WITH Manual of the Southeastern Flora (Small, 1933, 1938)
Amelanchier stolonifera