Amelanchier canadensis (L.) Medik.

Bushy shrub of alder-like aspect, usually in clumps, or a small tree to 8 m; lvs elliptic or elliptic-oblong to somewhat obovate, to 8 cm, rounded to subacute at the tip, often mucronate, broadly cuneate to rounded at base, finely and often obscurely serrate, the blunt teeth at least twice as many as the veins, which branch and anastomose toward the margin; lvs at anthesis ± exserted from the bud but still folded and densely tomentose beneath, glabrescent at maturity; racemes erect, short, dense; pedicels tomentose, at anthesis mostly 5–15 mm, the lowest becoming 12–20 mm in fr; hypanthium tomentose externally; sep 2–4 mm, soon spreading or somewhat recurved, but not strongly reflexed; pet usually oblong-obovate, 5–12 mm; ovary glabrous at the summit; fr dark purple to black; mostly diploid, sometimes polyploid. Swamps and shores and moist woods; Nf. to Miss., inland to c. N.H. and w.c. N.Y., but southward chiefly on the coastal plain. Apr.–June. (A. lucida)

Swamps, low ground, woods and thickets. Grows in woods and hedgerows in Britain. The plant is abundant in forested wetlands and ecotones with fresh-tidal marshes in the Chesapeake Bay region.

The fruit are used in pies, puddings, and for juice and preserves.

Can be grown by cuttings, seedlings or suckers.