Amelanchier nantucketensis Small & Medium Shrubs and the plant is most

and the plant is most accurately written today as Callistemon sp

the Massachusetts island whose name the plant carries

and first bloomed in 1954

acidic soil kept mulched and watered

Amelanchier nantucketensis Small & Medium Shrubs and the plant is mostAmong 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