Amelanchier grandiflora, Rehder

3. A. grandiflora Rehder View in CoL , Jour. Arnold Arb. 2: 45 (1920)

{ A. confusa Hyl. , A. laevis auct. eur., non Wieg.).

Shrub or small tree up to 9 m; young twigs hairy. Leaves 3-7 cm, broadly elliptical, cordate, finely serrulate, purplish and floccose-tomentose when young but soon green and glabrous. Racemes many-flowered, nodding, slightly villous. Petals 15-18 mm; styles 5, connate at base. Fruit dark purple; pedicels 20-22 mm. Of garden origin; now commonly cultivatedfor ornament, and sometimes naturalized in W. Europe. [Be Br Ga Ge Ho.]

This taxon has been much confused in gardens both with A. arborea (Michx fil.) Fernald ( A. canadensis sensu W. Darlington, non (L.) Medicus) and A. laevis Wieg. The former, from eastern U.S.A., is a tallertree up to 20 m, with young leaves tomentoselanate on both surfaces, racemes silky-tomentose, and fruit brown; the latter, from N.E. North America, has young twigs nearly glabrous, leaves always glabrous, and fruit smaller, on longer pedicels 30-50 mm.