Downy serviceberry9/9/2023 ![]() Older twigs are smooth with white lenticels scattered about the ash-gray slender branches. Spring twigs, green and covered with long white hairs, grow from previous year’s brown to purplish, glabrous stems. Branches tend to diverge from the parent branch at a sharp upward angle. An average size large tree is 15 to 25 feet tall (state champion tree is 44 feet tall). Mature trees in full sun have a thickly branched, rounded crown, while those in shadier understories tend to be tall with irregular branching. Downy serviceberry readily hybridizes with other Amelanchier species where ranges overlap.ĭowny serviceberry, a deciduous tree to large shrub (referred to as “tree” herein), tends to have several trunks of varying size and, when younger, may sprout nearby suckers. It often occurs as an understory tree among various hardwoods and pine. It is especially common on ridgetops and rocky slopes. Habitats of downy serviceberry include dry to mesic yet well-drained upland woodlands and forests, in full to partial sun light. Other common names include common serviceberry, sarvisberry, sarvis, shadbush and Juneberry*. In Arkansas, where it is the only native Amelanchier, downy serviceberry occurs statewide except for lowlands of the Mississippi Alluvial Plain and West Gulf Coastal Plain. from Texas to Minnesota and thence east and south to the Atlantic and Gulf coasts. ![]() Downy serviceberry is the most widespread species of the genus in North America, found throughout the eastern U.S. The specific epithet translates to “tree-like”. The genus name likely originates from a common name of the type species of the genus, Amelanchier ovalis, a European species. Downy serviceberry ( Amelanchier arborea) of the Rose (Rosaceae) family is a small tree or large shrub that produces showy white flowers very early in spring. ![]()
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