Allegheny Serviceberry
Amelanchier laevis
White flowers from April into May, worked by cuckoo bees and mining bees. Red-spotted Purple caterpillars feed on its leaves. It grows wild in 11 of West Virginia’s 55 counties.
- Light
- Full shade to full sun
- Soil
- Dry to moist soil
- Size
- 20 ft to 25 ft tall, 17.5 ft wide
- Flowers
- White, Apr to May
- Leaves
- Deciduous
- Roots
- Woody roots; wants 30 in of soil
- Kind
- Tree, Shrub
Planted young
in flowerfruit or seedfall colorbare for winter
What it feeds
- Butterflies
- Host plant for the Red-spotted Purple
- Caterpillars
- 112 kinds of caterpillars
- Bees
- 8 kinds of native bees
- Birds
- 16 kinds of birds
- On its flowers
- Cuckoo bee (Nomada maculata), Mining bee (Andrena sigmundi), Mason bee (Osmia virga), Sweat bee (Lasioglossum subviridatum)
Grows well with
American Witch-hazel
Common Pawpaw
Fringetree
Eastern Redbud
Sourwood
Northern Highbush Blueberry
Flame Azalea
Possumhaw ViburnumFacts from the Quercus record for Amelanchier laevis.