Amelanchier nantucketensis Small & Medium Shrubs with small maroon spring flowers

with small maroon spring flowers and

and first bloomed in 1954

Use white beautyberry massed for a luminous late-season effect

The rind sits loose on the flesh and slightly bumpy

acidic soil kept mulched and watered

Amelanchier nantucketensis Small & Medium Shrubs with small maroon spring flowersAmong the rarest of the serviceberries, Amelanchier nantucketensis is a low, thicket forming shrub that Eugene Bicknell first described in 1911 from the sandplains of Nantucket, the Massachusetts island whose name the plant carries. Nantucket serviceberry belongs to a small, taxonomically slippery group within the rose family, so closely tangled with neighboring shadbushes that botanists have argued for more than a century over whether this is a true