| Amelanchier alnifolia (Nutt.) Nutt. | |||
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| Family | Rosaceae — APG family: Rosaceae | ||
| Synonyms | Aronia alnifolia Nutt. | ||
| Description | Low shrub with reddish-brown branches; leaves coriaceous, rounded, about as broad as long, sharply serrated in the apex, glabrous or sparsely pubescent; sepals triangular, acute, densely woolly; petals white, oblanceolate; fruit globose, purplish- black when ripe, glabrous, juicy. | ||
| Ecology | Moist woods. Described from “Fort Mandan to the Northern Andes.” | ||
| Uses | The fruit is eaten raw, dried, or boiled and made into pies. |
This is a digital representation of Eric Hultén’s ‘Flora of Alaska and Neighboring Territories: A Manual of the Vascular Plants’, which was published by Stanford University Press in 1968. The book was digitized by C. Webb (at UAMN) as part of the Flora of Alaska project, with funding by the US NSF (Grant 1759964 to Ickert-Bond & Webb), and with permission of Stanford University Press. Data and images © 1968 Board of Trustees of the Leland Stanford Jr. Univ. Usage licence: Creative Commons BY-NC-SA 4.0. NB: You may find OCR errors; please refer to the hard-copy if in doubt.