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A.k.a. hybrid serviceberry and Juneberry. A naturally occurring and common hybrid of Allegheny serviceberry (A. laevis) and downy serviceberry (A. arborea) prized for its hybrid vigor and disease resistance! Like other serviceberries, it has showy white spring flowers, summer berries beloved by birds (and people!), hosts a variety of insects including the red-spotted purple butterfly, and has good fall color! 
Care is similar to its parent species in that it prefers moist, part loam soil with decent drainage. Tolerates full sun with sufficient water. Plants sucker at their bases, but do not runner. Can be kept trimmed to a single trunk ‘tree’ shape, but may be less stressed if allowed to grow as a shrub. Plants do self pollinate, but having more than one individual may increase fruit set.

While this cross has been used to make several popular cultivars, this listing is for a wildtype hybrid, not a cultivar. NPU does not sell cultivars/nativars. Pictured plants are the parent species.

Pollination: Self pollinating.

Light: Full Sun, Part Sun/Shade

Soil Moisture: Wet Mesic, Mesic

Soil Type: Loam, Sandy Loam

Height: 15’-20’

Width: 12’-15’

Bloom Color: White

Bloom Time: April

Fruit: Edible berries mature to dark red or blue/purple in June.

Fall Color: Yellow/Orange/Red

Root Type: Branching 

Notable Wildlife Interactions: Little specific data available, but it is certainly the same as the (already quite similar) parent species: Spring blooms support early season pollinators, particularly bees. Hosts the striped hairstreak and red-spotted purple butterflies, and many moths such as the blue spring moth and Chokeberry underwing, and some smaller insects. Early summer berries are sought after by many species of fruit eating birds such as thrushes, waxwings, and orioles. 

Notes: Weirdly not called large-flowered serviceberry? Look at that hybrid “species” name, you’d think someone would have jumped on that. Although I’ve seen no mention of the flowers actually being bigger on the wildtype. But why apple? I have found no answers.