Amelanchier nantucketensis Small & Medium Shrubs and first bloomed in 1954

and first bloomed in 1954

and others)

with small maroon spring flowers and

for zones 8 to 10

slender flower stems rise above the leaves carrying clusters of inch-wide lavender-purple daisies

Amelanchier nantucketensis Small & Medium Shrubs and first bloomed in 1954Among the rarest of the serviceberries, Amelanchier nantucketensis is a low, thicket forming shrub that Eugene Bicknell first described in 1911 from the sandplains of Nantucket, the Massachusetts island whose name the plant carries. Nantucket serviceberry belongs to a small, taxonomically slippery group within the rose family, so closely tangled with neighboring shadbushes that botanists have argued for more than a century over whether this is a true