Amelanchier utahensis

Utah service-berry, Utah Service-Berry

Family: Rosaceae · Type: shrub · Native

Utah service-berry is a California native shrub found in northwestern California, the Cascade Range, Sierra Nevada, central western California, southwestern California, Modoc Plateau, eastern Sierra Nevada, and desert mountains in open, rocky slopes, canyons, creek banks, deserts, and conifer forests at elevations of 200 to 3,400 meters. Flowering from April to June, this plant produces white flowers in clusters with 3 to 6 blooms, each petal 6 to 11 millimeters long. Growing 0.5 to 5 meters tall with twigs that range from completely smooth to generally white-hairy, it forms a multi-stemmed shrub with variable texture. Its leaves are broadly shaped, 13 to 45 millimeters long and 10 to 45 millimeters wide, generally serrated above the middle, with hairy undersides that become more finely hairy as the plant matures. The fruit is a rounded berry 6 to 10 millimeters in diameter, developing after the flower clusters fade.

Habitat: Open, rocky slopes, canyons, banks of creeks, deserts, conifer forest

Bloom period: Apr-Jun

Elevation: 200-3400 m

Bioregions: NW, CaR, SN, CW, SW, MP, SNE, DMtns

California counties: Mendocino, San Bernardino, Kern, Los Angeles, Mono, San Diego, Fresno, Inyo, Plumas, Monterey, Riverside, Tulare, San Luis Obispo, Napa, Santa Clara, Humboldt, Santa Barbara, Madera, Siskiyou, Sierra, Placer, Lassen, Alpine, Sonoma, El Dorado, Modoc, Nevada, San Mateo, San Francisco, Shasta, Tehama, Glenn, Trinity, Tuolumne, Mariposa, Ventura, Amador, Contra Costa, San Benito, Santa Cruz, Alameda, Butte, Del Norte, Lake, Marin, Colusa, Calaveras, Yuba

Data from The California Species Project — 14,000+ California species with verified data from CNPS, CDFW, USFWS, Jepson eFlora, Cal-IPC, and more.