Also called:
Part of
🌹︎ rose family Rosaceae
in
🍎︎ apple / 🍇︎ berry / buckthorn / elm / hemp / 🌹︎ rose order Rosales.
Native to 🇨🇦 Canada Great Lakes; and 🇺🇸 USA Great Lakes, East and South.
🗺 Map by county (🇺🇸 USA-48),
🗺 map (North America, Central America), 
🗺 today + with climate change (eastern 🇺🇸 USA).
🚼︎ For kids! This plant described in a 🇺🇸 USDA Forest Service coloring page ⚘❀ Celebrating Wildflowers
(color key).
Uses by native peoples
(Ethnobotany database)
Amelanchier hosts caterpillars of 115 species
of butterflies and moths, in some areas.
This plant is known to be a host for (in areas where invasive)
🐝︎ spotted lanternfly (SLF) Lycorma delicatula.
In 🇺🇸 USA Midwest and 🏔 mountain states, provides 🌱︎⚘❀ spring flowers, ⚘ summer shade and cooling, 🍃︎ autumn foliage color and edible fruits for 👥︎ humans; cover for wildlife, nest sites for 🐦︎ birds, and food for 🐦︎ birds, 🐟︎ 🐢︎🐇︎ animals, 🐝︎ pollinators and 🐞︎🐛︎🐜︎🐝︎ insects.
Use as small tree is a small yard (sister-species) (Pennsylvania). (page 54)
Planting info (SW Michigan).