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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 Floristic Synthesis of North America. BONAP (Kartesz, 2021)

Amelanchier spicata

SYNONYMOUS WITH Flora of North America north of Mexico, vol. 9 (2014)

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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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 (4/14/23):
Amelanchier spicata   FAMILY Rosaceae

SYNONYMOUS WITH PLANTS NATIONAL DATABASE:
Amelanchier stolonifera   FAMILY Rosaceae

SYNONYMOUS WITH Floristic Synthesis of North America. BONAP (Kartesz, 2021)
Amelanchier spicata

SYNONYMOUS WITH Flora of North America north of Mexico, vol. 9
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