Autumn Brilliance® Serviceberry joined our Redpointe® Maple in earning the Pennsylvania Horticultural Society’s Gold Medal Plant Award for 2025.This prestigious honor shines a light on this fine tree and others of its species. Native to a wide range of landscape types and regions across North America, serviceberries bloom reliably in the early spring and merit attention for their excellent fall color. Tasty blueberry-like fruits are attractive to birds and delicious in pies, jams, jellies and desserts.
These hardy plants are grown as large shrubs or small trees. Tree forms are well-suited for use as a focal point in small-scale landscapes. Multi-stem forms have many uses including visual screens, wildlife habitat, woodland edges and roadside plantings.
Known by various names including Juneberry, Serviceberry, Saskatoon and Shadbush, they have played an important part in the lives of Native American people and early settlers of the West. It’s an important source of pollen for early-spring insects, is host to numerous butterfly species and is an important browse for deer and moose.
The many services provided by Serviceberries are detailed in The History of Serviceberry Trees, the blog of Spring Grove Nursery, Mazon, Illinois. Author Maggie Harper shares some of the myths and legends that swirl around this handsome plant, and recommends an excellent essay, “The Serviceberry: Economy of Abundance. Written by Robin Wall Kimmerer, the author of Braiding Sweetgrass, it explores gratitude and reciprocity and more.
Kimmerer takes a deeper dive into the gift-giving serviceberry in a slender book that’s packed with wisdom, The Serviceberry, Abundance and Reciprocity in the Natural World.
We hope you’ll enjoy the blog, the essay, and the book, and will find room for Serviceberries in your garden. We grow thousands of these handsome, sturdy, four-season beauties and distribute them to growers and garden centers throughout the country.

Autumn Brilliance® Serviceberry
Amelanchier x grandiflora ‘Autumn Brilliance’
Branches billow with fluffy, snow-white flowers when this naturally occurring hybrid of two native species bursts into bloom. These are followed closely by dark green summer foliage that glows bright red orange in the fall. Purplish-blue fruits are tasty and can be made into jams and syrups – if they can be harvested before the birds gobble them down!
Introduced in 1986 by plantsman Willett Wandell, it is our top-selling Serviceberry and likely the most widely specified and planted of the species. A hybrid of A. arborea and A. laevis, it is broadly adaptable to varied soils and growing conditions. Hardy through Zone 4.

Spring Flurry® Serviceberry
Amelanchier laevis JFS-Arb’ PP15304
Spring Flurry® has the best upright tree form that we have seen in the genus, one that can truly be considered a street tree Amelanchier! This Schmidt introduction has a strong and dominant central leader with scaffold branches that are oriented strongly upward. They support a delicate latticework of twigs that form an upright, oval canopy.
A flurry of pure white blooms bursts forth in the spring, giving way to healthy green foliage that turns orange in the fall. Clusters of 3/8” purplish-blue fruits appear in the fall, attracting birds as well as people who admire this handsome small tree. Height at maturity is about 30 feet, with a spread of about 18 feet. Hardiness is USDA Zone 4.

Allegheny Serviceberry
Amelanchier laevis
White flowers grow in clusters before the green leaves emerge. Growing a little taller, more upright and “tree-like” than is typical of the species, this vigorous grower reaches a height and spread of about 25’ x 15’. Fall color is orange. Fruits are purplish blue, about 3/8″ in diameter, and very tasty.

Snowcloud Serviceberry
Amelanchier laevis ‘Snowcloud’
White flowers borne in clusters emerge in spring, followed by red-tinted green foliage that matures to dark green. Fall color is scarlet, and the edible fruits are purplish blue.
Selected for its upright growth habit and suitability as a small street tree, its upright, oval form and small mature size of 25’ x 15’ qualifies it for our UtiliTrees™ list. Introduced by Plantsman William Flemer III and introduced by Princeton Nursery of New Jersey, it has been a popular cultivar since we added it to our catalog in 1999.

Princess Diana Serviceberry
Amelanchier grandiflora ‘Princess Diana’
White bloom clusters are followed by medium green leaves that are soon joined by edible, 3/8″ purplish blue fruit. Hardy and very colorful, this USDA Zone 3 tree has spectacular fall foliage that colors early with brilliant red tones and lasts late in the season. Its upright character and mature height and spread of 20’ x 25’ earns it a place on our UtiliTrees™ list.

Shadblow Serviceberry
Amelanchier canadensis
This sturdy, upright, hardy shrub tolerates wet soils and varied growing conditions. Small white flowers are followed by purplish blue, 3/8″ edible fruits. Fall color is yellow to red.
Hardy through USDA Zone 3, it grows to a height and spread of about 10’ x 6’. Makes an excellent informal hedge and is useful for creating a relaxed, informal landscape.

Standing Ovation™ - First Editions® Serviceberry
Amelanchier alnifolia ‘Obelisk’
The narrowly upright form of this North American native is a good fit for tight spaces and a good candidate for hedging. A profuse crop of small, white flowers gives way to green, rounded leaves that are a bit ruffled on their edges may be followed by small, edible, tasty fruits – if the birds don’t beat you to it! Height and spread of this sturdy little tree are 15’ x 7’.

Lamarckii Serviceberry
Amelanchier x lamarckii
This relatively unusual species is notable for its star-shaped white flowers and colorful foliage. Leaves are pink when they first unfurl, maturing to green and turning bright red in autumn. Red fruits appear among the leaves of summer and soon ripen to dark purple. Native to eastern Canada, plants taken from there to Europe in the 1700’s appear to have hybridized naturally (A. arborea x A. laevis) and evolved to today’s handsome plant that has earned the Royal Horticultural Society’s Award of Garden Merit. It was discovered in Europe and is named for the French naturalist, Jean-Baptiste Lamarck. Grown from seed, plants are very uniform in their broad-spreading, rounded growth, reaching a height and spread of about 20’ x 20 ‘as they reach maturity.
Gardeners! Please note that our nursery is strictly wholesale. To purchase these and other trees grown by our nursery, please use our Retailer Locator to find sources of JFS trees near you.