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Serviceberry - Shadblow
The Shadblow produces sweet red-purple edible fruit that can be used in pies and jellies. This shrub spreads by sucker growth from the roots and the blue-green foilage turns yellow to red in the fall. Shadblow Serviceberry, amelanchier canadensis, is a laree upright shrub that contains beautiful snowy white flowers in the spring before the foilage appears. ... more information
Sumac - Flameleaf It is widespread in open uplands along fence rows and in waste places. The Flameleaf Sumac, Rhus copallina, is a shrub or occasionally a small tree. White-tailed deer also use it as a browse. Fruit matures in late summer remaining attached into winter and is eaten by many species of birds and white-tailed deer. It is a prolific sprouter after a fire. Leaves have a winged axis and turn flame red to dark purple in the fall, hence the common name. When left alone it will often form thickets. |
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