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[5] [6] [7] The fruit is eaten by over 40 species of birds and various mammals, including squirrels, rabbits, chipmunks, mice, voles, foxes, black bears, deer, and elk. [4] It also commonly hybridizes with other species of Amelanchier, [6] the hybrid Amelanchier × grandiflora being one example, [8] and identification can be very difficult as a ...
Amelanchier (/ æ m ə ˈ l æ n ʃ ɪər / am-ə-LAN-sheer), [1] also known as shadbush, shadwood or shadblow, serviceberry or sarvisberry (or just sarvis), juneberry, saskatoon, sugarplum, wild-plum [2] or chuckley pear, [3] is a genus of about 20 species of deciduous-leaved shrubs and small trees in the rose family .
The plant can be found from Alaska across most of western Canada and in the western and north-central United States. [7] It grows from sea level in the north of the range, up to 2,600 m (8,530 ft) elevation in California and 3,400 m (11,200 ft) in the Rocky Mountains. [2] [5] [3] It is a common shrub in the forest understory, [20] as well as ...
The first thing that you can do is look to plant species that are commonly referred to as "deer-resistant." "Deer can be greedy eaters and can damage gardens and yards by feeding on various plants ...
Opting for deer-resistant plants is an easier and more foolproof way to make sure your garden doesn’t get eaten up. Deer definitely have favorite foods, such as arborvitae , hostas, daylilies ...
The plants deer typically hate the most include boxwoods, junipers, forsythia, butterfly bush, beautyberry and inkberry holly, as well as most hollies in general, says Dr. Mengak.
Amelanchier utahensis, the Utah serviceberry, is a shrub or small tree native to western North America. This serviceberry grows in varied habitats, from scrubby open slopes to woodlands and forests. A. utahensis in high Sierra Nevada, California - flower clusters on short racemes; leaves elliptical, toothed above middle
Amelanchier canadensis (bilberry, [2] Canadian serviceberry, chuckle-berry, currant-tree, [3] juneberry, shad-blow serviceberry, shad-blow, shadbush, shadbush serviceberry, sugarplum, thicket serviceberry) is a species of Amelanchier native to eastern North America in Canada from Newfoundland west to southern Ontario, and in the United States from Maine south to Alabama.