''Amelanchier nantucketensis'', also known as the Nantucket serviceberry or the Nantucket shadbush, produces edible fruit called

pome In botany, a pome is a type of fruit produced by flowering plants in the subtribe Malinae of the family Rosaceae. Well-known pomes include the apple, pear, and quince. Etymology The word ''pome'' entered English in the late 14th century, and re ...

s. Nantucket serviceberry is of conservation concern in the wild. Its distribution extends from

Nantucket Nantucket () is an island about south from Cape Cod. Together with the small islands of Tuckernuck and Muskeget, it constitutes the Town and County of Nantucket, a combined county/town government that is part of the U.S. state of Massachuse ...

and

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and

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.''Amelanchier nantucketensis''.
Center for Plant Conservation. There are scattered occurrences in Maryland, Virginia, Maine, and Nova Scotia.''Amelanchier nantucketensis''.
The Nature Conservancy. This

shrub A shrub (often also called a bush) is a small-to-medium-sized perennial woody plant. Unlike herbaceous plants, shrubs have persistent woody stems above the ground. Shrubs can be either deciduous or evergreen. They are distinguished from trees ...

grows 2 to 5 feet tall. It forms colonies by extending

stolon In biology, stolons (from Latin '' stolō'', genitive ''stolōnis'' – "branch"), also known as runners, are horizontal connections between organisms. They may be part of the organism, or of its skeleton; typically, animal stolons are external s ...

s. It produces cream-colored flowers and blue fruits. The plant grows in dry, sandy, sunny habitat, including pine barrens and grasslands. The plant is common on Nantucket.

References

External links

USDA Plants Profile

University of Maine
nantucketensis Flora of the Eastern United States Taxa named by Eugene P. Bicknell Plants described in 1911 {{maleae-stub