Aronia arbutifolia – description, flowering period and general distribution in Ontario. Plant begins to bloom

Aronia arbutifolia – description, flowering period and general distribution in Ontario. An even row of planted bushes, summer

Aronia arbutifolia – description, flowering period and general distribution in Ontario. Bushes with ripe fruits, leaves change color

Aronia arbutifolia – description, flowering period and general distribution in Ontario. Branches with red leaves and fruits.

Scientific name:

Aronia arbutifolia

Common name(s):

Red chokeberry.

Life form:

Shrub.

Flowering time:

no data.

Flowering period

in Ontario for this plant is: February ↔ May.

NECTAR PRODUCTION:

No data

SOURCE FOR HONEY BEES:

Minor

General distribution:

Aronia arbutifolia, called the red chokeberry, is a North American species of shrubs in the rose family. It is native to eastern Canada and to the eastern and central United States, from eastern Texas to Nova Scotia inland to Ontario, Ohio, Kentucky, and Oklahoma.

Map of distribution and habitat in Canada

This plant is present in at least 30 states/provinces in this country.

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Botanical description:

Stems appressed-pilose.

Leaves pale green abaxially, dark green and dull adaxially, coloring in autumn; blade 3–7.5 × 2–3.5 cm, apex subacute to acuminate, abaxial surface pilose, adaxial glabrous or glabrescent, midrib abaxially densely gray-hairy, adaxially glandular-hairy.

Flowers sweet-scented; hypanthium villous, especially proximally; sepal margins villous proximally; anthers yellow to purplish red. Pomes red, pilose, taste acid and bitter. 2n = 34, 68.

Seasonal development:

Flowering: February – May; fruiting September – November.

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