Amelanchier intermedia

Amelanchier intermedia, also known as intermediate serviceberry, shadbush or juneberry, is a wetland shrub, thought to be a hybrid of A. canadensis and A. laevis.[1]

Amelanchier intermedia
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Kingdom: Plantae
Clade: Tracheophytes
Clade: Angiosperms
Clade: Eudicots
Clade: Rosids
Order: Rosales
Family: Rosaceae
Genus: Amelanchier
Species:
A. intermedia
Binomial name
Amelanchier intermedia
Spach, Hist. Nat. Vég. (Spach) ii. 85 (1834).

It is distinguished from A. canadensis by its sparser pubescence, and from A. laevis by the weaker red colouration.

References

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  1. ^ Schmid, Rudolf; Kartesz, John T. (1994). "A Synonymized Checklist of the Vascular Flora of the United States, Canada, and Greenland". Taxon. 43 (3): 515. doi:10.2307/1222748. ISSN 0040-0262.