Apple Serviceberry
Amelanchier x grandiflora
A small native tree for every season: white spring flowers, sweet blueberry-like berries in early summer for people and birds, brilliant orange-red fall colour and handsome bark in winter. It suits a lawn, a woodland edge or an informal hedge. Pull off root suckers if you want a tree rather than a shrub.
- Mature size
- 20 × 20 ft
- 6 × 6 m, tall × wide
- Hardiness
- Zones 4a–9b
- USDA
- Sun
- Full sun to part sun
- Water
- Medium to wet
- Blooms
- Apr
- Fall color Oct–Nov
Apple Serviceberry at its mature size
A mature Apple Serviceberry grows 15 to 25 feet tall and just as wide, taller than most people.
Drawn to scale beside a 5 ft 9 in person. With VeraScape, you see it at this size in your own yard.
Typical mature size, unpruned. Sources: Missouri Botanical Garden.
Through the year
What Apple Serviceberry looks like month by month in a typical zone 6–7 garden.
Dormant · Dec–Mar
Bare: smooth silver-gray multiple stems and fine twigs.
In flower · Apr
White flowers from pink buds covering bare branches, bronze-purple new leaves just opening.
In leaf · May–Sep
Blue-green to medium green oval leaves, full crown.
Fall · Oct–Nov
Showy red to orange, bright.
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Growing Apple Serviceberry
- Grows well in
- The Northeast, the Southeast, the Midwest, and the Pacific Northwest.
- Good for
- Hedge, specimen, rain garden, deer resistant, pollinators, and fall color
- Leaves
- Drops its leaves in winter
- Native to
- Eastern North America
Spacing for a hedge
VeraScape spaces plants so their grown canopies just touch. For Apple Serviceberry, that’s about 20 ft apart, center to center.
Place a row in your own yard and VeraScape spaces them at their mature width, so you can see whether they’ll crowd the walk.
See Apple Serviceberry in your yard before you dig
Visualize it at its true size, alongside the rest of your design.
Other serviceberries
Apple Serviceberry
ServiceberryAll drawn to the same scale.