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Amelanchier intermedia

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Amelanchier intermedia
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Kingdom: Plantae
Clade: Tracheophytes
Clade: Angiosperms
Clade: Eudicots
Clade: Rosids
Order: Rosales
Family: Rosaceae
Genus: Amelanchier
Species:
A. intermedia
Binomial name
Amelanchier intermedia
Spach, Hist. Nat. Vég. (Spach) ii. 85 (1834).

Amelanchier intermedia, also known as intermediate serviceberry, shadbush or juneberry, is a wetland shrub, thought to be a hybrid of A. canadensis and A. laevis.[1]

It is distinguished from A. canadensis by its sparser pubescence, and from A. laevis by the weaker red colouration.

References

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  1. ^ Schmid, Rudolf; Kartesz, John T. (1994). "A Synonymized Checklist of the Vascular Flora of the United States, Canada, and Greenland". Taxon. 43 (3): 515. doi:10.2307/1222748. ISSN 0040-0262.