Tree · Rosaceae
Common serviceberry
Amelanchier arborea · includes its varieties and subspecies
Common serviceberry is recorded as native to 34 states and territories in Kew’s World Checklist of Vascular Plants and USDA PLANTS, and recorded in 1,189 counties of those states by USDA PLANTS.
Key facts · USDA PLANTS
Common serviceberry at a glance
- Native in
- 1,189 counties, across 34 states and territories
- Estimated cold hardiness
- Zone 2b PLANTS minimum temperature −47°F
- Mature height
- 36 ft PLANTS mature height
- Light and water
- Tolerates shade Medium water use
Estimated cold hardiness: zone 2b. PLANTS gives a minimum temperature of −47°F; zone 2b winters bottom out at −45°F, the coldest half-zone that stays within that limit.
Common serviceberry is recorded as native to 34 states and territories in Kew’s World Checklist of Vascular Plants and USDA PLANTS, and recorded in 1,189 counties of those states by USDA PLANTS.
Counties where it is native
The 15 counties with the most ZIP codes among the 1,189 where it is listed.
Native counties by state
- Alabama 57 counties
- Arkansas 56 counties
- Connecticut statewide record
- Delaware 1 county
- District of Columbia 1 county
- Florida 11 counties
- Georgia 45 counties
- Illinois 67 counties
- Indiana 34 counties
- Iowa 6 counties
- Kansas 11 counties
- Kentucky 100 counties
- Louisiana 25 counties
- Maine 16 counties
- Massachusetts 14 counties
- Michigan 58 counties
- Minnesota 10 counties
- Mississippi 22 counties
- Missouri 97 counties
- Nebraska 6 counties
- New Hampshire 10 counties
- New Jersey 19 counties
- New York 43 counties
- North Carolina 53 counties
- Ohio 71 counties
- Oklahoma 15 counties
- Pennsylvania 64 counties
- Rhode Island 5 counties
- South Carolina 15 counties
- Tennessee 62 counties
- Vermont 14 counties
- Virginia 97 counties
- West Virginia 53 counties
- Wisconsin 31 counties
Growing traits
Values from the PLANTS characteristics record. “Not recorded” means PLANTS has no value; nothing here is estimated except the zone.
Growth
- Growth habit
- Shrub, Tree
- Duration
- Perennial
- Mature height
- 36 ft
- Growth rate
- Slow
- Growth form
- Single Stem
- Shape
- Erect
- Lifespan
- Moderate
- Active growth period
- Spring and Summer
Light and water
- Shade tolerance
- Tolerant (tolerates shade)
- Moisture use
- Medium water use
- Drought tolerance
- Low
- Tolerance of waterlogged soil
- Medium
- Precipitation range
- 26 to 80 in per year
Soil
- Soil textures
- Coarse and medium
- pH range
- 4.8 to 7.5
- Lime (CaCO₃) tolerance
- None
- Salinity tolerance
- Low
- Fertility requirement
- Medium
- Minimum root depth
- 20 in
Climate
- Minimum temperature
- −47°F
- Estimated cold hardiness
- Zone 2b and warmer
- Minimum frost-free days
- 120
- Fire tolerance
- Medium
Flowers, leaves and fruit
- Flower color
- White
- Showy flowers
- Yes
- Bloom period
- Mid Spring
- Foliage color
- Dark Green
- Showy in fall
- Yes
- Keeps leaves
- No
- Fruit color
- Red
Other
- Toxicity
- None
- Nitrogen fixation
- None
- Nursery availability
- Contracting Only
- Family
- Rosaceae
- PLANTS symbol
- AMAR3
Source & data date
- Source
- USDA NRCS PLANTS Database: county distribution records, native status and plant characteristics. CC0 (public domain dedication, per the data.gov catalog record).
- Kew’s World Checklist of Vascular Plants (WCVP): native or introduced status by state. CC BY 3.0.
- USGS US-RIIS (ver. 2.0): species listed as introduced are excluded. CC0.
- Citation
- USDA, NRCS. 2026. The PLANTS Database (https://plants.usda.gov, 11/04/2026). National Plant Data Team, Greensboro, NC USA.
- Govaerts R. (ed.) (2026). WCVP: World Checklist of Vascular Plants. Facilitated by the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew. Data file dated 2026-06-04, http://sftp.kew.org/pub/data-repositories/WCVP/ (retrieved 2026-11-04). Paper: Govaerts R. et al. (2021) The World Checklist of Vascular Plants, a continuously updated resource for exploring global plant diversity. Scientific Data 8, 215.
- Data date
- Retrieved from PLANTS on November 4, 2026; WCVP data file dated June 4, 2026.
- Scope
- Amelanchier arborea (PLANTS symbol AMAR3), including 1 variety or subspecies folded into the species.
- Method
- A species is listed when it is recorded as native to the state in Kew’s World Checklist of Vascular Plants and USDA PLANTS, and recorded in the county by USDA PLANTS. Species PLANTS labels both native and introduced are listed separately. Full method · All sources