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flowers small (petals less than % inch 

 long) blooming 10-15 days later than 

 Cusick serviceberry with which it often 

 grows; "berries" often reversely pear- 

 shaped, woolly-hairy at style bases; 

 tall shrubs or small trees, sometimes 

 low and twiggy from browse injury or 

 exposed site conditions; e. slopes of 

 Cascades, Wallowa and Blue Mts., 

 e. Oreg., e. Wash. 



Saskatoon serviceberry 

 (Amelanchier alnifolia). 

 28. New twigs and leaves woolly-hairy; 

 leaves bright green on upper side, thin, 

 often fully grown at flowering time, 

 rounded, somewhat square-cut or 

 slightly pointed at tip; teeth spread- 

 ing, triangular, 5-20 on each side; 

 veins slightly upcurving; flower petals 

 to % inch long; "berries" woolly-hairy 

 at base of the 5 styles (united to 

 middle or above) ; tall shrubs or small 

 trees; mostly w. of Cascades, occa- 

 sional in Columbia Gorge area e. of 

 Cascades, Oreg., Wash. 



Pacific serviceberry 

 (Amelanchier florida). 

 Mature leaves finely woolly-hairy or gray- 

 ish with soft curly hairs, somewhat leathery, 

 to IV2 inches long, varying from roundish 

 to egg- (or reversely egg-) shaped, square- 

 cut, shallowly notched, rounded or with 

 short spiny-pointed tip, and rounded, 

 square-cut or wedge-shaped at base; veins 

 11—13 pairs; teeth 3-10 on each side, 

 spreading or scalloped; flowers 3-6 in a 

 cluster, with petals to % inch long, some- 

 times reddish in bud; "berries" bluish- 

 black (sometimes brownish, dry, leathery), 

 finely woolly-hairy in depression at base 

 of the 2-4 (or 5) styles; calyx lobes some- 

 times erect, linear-lance-shaped, finely 

 woolly-hairy on both sides; shrubs usually 

 bushy, much-branched, with rigid, ashy- 

 gray twigs; Lake to Malheur Cos., se. 

 Oreg., not reported from Wash. 



Utah serviceberry 

 (Amelanchier utahensis). 



Utah serviceberry leaves 



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