SKU: TA00500

Amelanchier canadensis - Shadblow Serviceberry, Canadian Serviceberry, or Shadbush is an understory tree with showy,long petaled white flowers which appear before the leaves emerge. Tree habit tends to be multi-stemmed. Fruit is highly attractive to birds and is edible to humans, if you can beat the birds to it. Tree is subject to rusts, scale, aphids, etc. however damage is usually cosmetic and not life-threatening.

Height: 6-20' in northern zones and larger in southern zones, 15-35' in zone 5
Spread: 15-20'
Light: Sun to part-shade
Soil type: Moist, well-drained but will tolerate dry conditions
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Flowers: White in March-April
Fruit: Red fading to black
Fall color: Yellow to orange

Wildlife value: Fruits are highly attractive to birds, important browse for wildlife
Notes of Interest: Medicinal plant used by Cherokee, Chippewa, and Iroquois Indians. Blossom time used as reliable method of when to plant corn for Iroquois Indians and of when to fish for shad (hence the common name) by fishermen.