Amelanchier nantucketensis Small & Medium Shrubs acidic soil kept mulched and

acidic soil kept mulched and watered

with small maroon spring flowers and

and first bloomed in 1954

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

" It belongs instead to the mallow family

Amelanchier nantucketensis Small & Medium Shrubs acidic soil kept mulched andAmong 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