Utah serviceberry

Amelanchier utahensis Koehne (Rosaceae), Utah serviceberry, is a deciduous, much-branched large shrub or small tree of the cold deserts and montane slopes of western North America, ranging from south-eastern Oregon and Idaho south through the Great Basin and Colorado Plateau to southern California, Arizona, New Mexico and northern Mexico. Plants typically reach 1-4 m tall, occasionally to 8 m, with smooth grey young bark becoming finely fissured with age and densely twiggy stiff branchlets. The alternate, simple leaves are elliptic to suborbicular, 1-3 cm long, with serrate margins mostly above the middle, persistently grey-pubescent beneath at maturity, and short-petioled. Short axillary racemes of three to six fragrant white flowers appear with or just before the leaves in spring; each flower is 1.5-2.5 cm across with five narrow strap-shaped petals and many stamens. The pome is small, 6-10 mm in diameter, dark purple-black, somewhat dry but sweet, ripening in mid-summer.