Amelanchier pallida Greene

Shrubs, 0.5–6 m. Stems 1–50, often densely colonial, much branched. Leaves fully unfolded; petiole (1–)4.5–8.5(–18) mm; blade suborbiculate to oval or obovate, (15–)20–29(–44) × (10–)14–20(–28) mm, base rounded to subcordate, sometimes cuneate, each margin with 0(–2) teeth on proximal 1/2 and (0–)2–5(–9) teeth in distalmost cm, largest teeth less than 1 mm, apex rounded, truncate, or emarginate to acute and mucronate, abaxial surface moderately (sparsely) hairy by flowering, sparsely to moderately hairy later, adaxial sparsely hairy later. Inflorescences (6 or)7–11(–17)-flowered, (15–)21–29(–38) mm. Pedicels: (0 or)1 or 2(or 3) subtended by a leaf, proximalmost (8–)12–18(–25) mm. Flowers: sepals usually erect to recurved after flowering, (1.3–)1.6–3(–4.5) mm; petals elliptic to broadly oval, (4–)5.2–8(–9.5) × (2.2–)3.2–4.6(–6.6) mm; stamens (12–)17–21(–23); styles (2 or)3 or 4(or 5), (1.4–)2.1–2.7(–3.3) mm; ovary apex moderately to densely (sparsely) hairy. Pomes often brownish, 6–10 mm diam. 2n = 2x, 4x.

Dry gravelly and rocky slopes and flats below 3,300 metres especially in moist coniferous forests in California. Dry rocky slopes, canyons, chaparral, mountainsides; at elevations from 1,000-2,000 metres.

Fruit are eaten raw or cooked.

It can be grown from seed, layering or suckers. Unless fresh seed are used, seed can take 18 months to germinate and layers can take 18 months to form roots.