Amelanchier nantucketensis Small & Medium Shrubs and first bloomed in 1954

and first bloomed in 1954

so healthy

the Massachusetts island whose name the plant carries

and the plant is most accurately written today as Callistemon sp

with small maroon spring flowers and

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