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|accepted_name=Amelanchier alnifolia
|accepted_authority=(Nuttall) Nuttall ex M. Roemer
|publications={{Treatment/Publication
|title=Fam. Nat. Syn. Monogr.
|place=3: 147. 1847
|year=1847
}}
|common_names=Alder-leaved shadbush;saskatoon;saskatoon berry;amélanchier à feuilles d'aulne
|special_status={{Treatment/ID/Special_status
|code=E
|label=Endemic
}}
|basionyms={{Treatment/ID/Synonym
|name=Aronia alnifolia
|authority=Nuttall
}}
|synonyms=
|hierarchy=Rosaceae;Rosaceae subfam. Amygdaloideae;Rosaceae tribe Gillenieae;Amelanchier;Amelanchier alnifolia
|hierarchy_nav=<div class="higher-taxa"><div class="higher-taxon"><small>family</small>[[Rosaceae]]</div><div class="higher-taxon"><small>subfamily</small>[[Rosaceae subfam. Amygdaloideae]]</div><div class="higher-taxon"><small>tribe</small>[[Rosaceae tribe Gillenieae]]</div><div class="higher-taxon"><small>genus</small>[[Amelanchier]]</div><div class="higher-taxon"><small>species</small>[[Amelanchier alnifolia]]</div></div>
|volume=Volume 9
|mention_page=page 442, 648, 649, 652
|treatment_page=page 651
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--><span class="statement" id="st-undefined" data-properties=""><b>Shrubs,</b> 1–12 m. <b>Stems</b> 1–50, solitary or colonial. <b>Leaves</b> mostly unfolded; petiole (3–)6.8–19.1(–28) mm; blade usually elliptic to oval to suborbiculate, sometimes quadrangular, (14–)24–47(–67) × (7–)17–36(–55) mm, base usually subcordate to truncate, sometimes ± tapering or ± cuneate, each margin with 0–3(–9) teeth on proximal 1/2 and (0–)3–5(–8) teeth in distalmost cm, largest teeth more than 1 mm, apex rounded to truncate or occasionally acute or mucronate, abaxial surface sparsely to densely hairy (or glabrous) by flowering, sparsely to moderately hairy (or glabrous) later, adaxial glabrous or sparsely (moderately) hairy later. <b>Inflorescences</b> (4–)6–11(–16)-flowered, (8–)14–43(–62) mm. <b>Pedicels</b>: (0 or)1 or 2(or 3) subtended by a leaf, proximalmost (2–)3–20(–29) mm. <b>Flowers</b>: sepals erect to recurved after flowering, (1.4–)2.2–4(–4.9) mm; petals oblanceolate to oval or obovate to elliptic, (5.7–)9.5–14(–18.8) × (2.2–)3.3–5.2(–6.6) mm; stamens (10–)15–21(–22); styles (3 or)4 or 5(or 6), (1.3–)2–2.9(–3.9) mm; ovary apex moderately to densely hairy (or glabrous). <b>Pomes</b> black or purple, 8–15 mm diam.</span><!--

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|distribution=w North America.
|discussion=<p>Varieties 3 (3 in the flora).</p><!--
--><p><i>Amelanchier alnifolia</i> is widespread and polymorphic, and its taxonomic and geographic limits have been viewed differently. L. Cinq-Mars (1971) considered this species to range eastward to the Gaspé Peninsula. Disagreements about the boundary between <i>A. alnifolia</i> and <i>A. humilis</i> are evident in herbarium specimen annotations. The distinctness of the varieties of <i>A. alnifolia</i> has also been questioned. G. N. Jones (1946) treated the three varieties recognized here as distinct species and noted that the leaves of <i></i>var.<i> alnifolia</i> and <i></i>var.<i> semiintegrifolia</i> (A. florida) are virtually indistinguishable, and, although petal lengths of the two do not overlap, occasional larger-flowered <i></i>var.<i> alnifolia</i> and occasional smaller-flowered <i></i>var.<i> semiintegrifolia</i> occur, so the petal length distinction is not an absolute one. Geographically these two varieties are largely separate, with <i></i>var.<i> alnifolia</i> occurring in the Great Plains and Rocky Mountains and <i></i>var.<i> semiintegrifolia</i> on the Pacific slopes of mountains from Alaska to northern California.</p><!--
--><p><i>Amelanchier alnifolia</i> is thought to hybridize with <i>Sorbus scopulina</i> (x\Amelasorbus jackii Rehder).</p>
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==Key==
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|-id=key-0-1
|1
|Ovary apices glabrous (or sparsely hairy); shrubs 1–2(–4) m.
|[[Amelanchier alnifolia var. pumila|Amelanchier alnifolia var. pumila]]
|-id=key-0-1
|1
|Ovary apices moderately to densely hairy (or glabrous); shrubs or trees, 1–12 m
|[[#key-0-2| > 2]]
|-id=key-0-2
|2
|Inflorescences (8–)26–43(–62) mm; proximalmost pedicels (5–)8–16(–29) mm.
|[[Amelanchier alnifolia var. alnifolia|Amelanchier alnifolia var. alnifolia]]
|-id=key-0-2
|2
|Inflorescences (8–)14–26(–35) mm; proximalmost pedicels (2 or)3–8(–13) mm.
|[[Amelanchier alnifolia var. semiintegrifolia|Amelanchier alnifolia var. semiintegrifolia]]
|}
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name=Amelanchier alnifolia
|author=
|authority=(Nuttall) Nuttall ex M. Roemer
|rank=species
|parent rank=genus
|synonyms=
|basionyms=Aronia alnifolia
|family=Rosaceae
|distribution=w North America.
|reference=None
|publication title=Fam. Nat. Syn. Monogr.
|publication year=1847
|special status=Endemic
|source xml=https://jpend@bitbucket.org/aafc-mbb/fna-data-curation.git/src/8f726806613d60c220dc4493de13607dd3150896/coarse_grained_fna_xml/V9/V9_1117.xml
|subfamily=Rosaceae subfam. Amygdaloideae
|tribe=Rosaceae tribe Gillenieae
|genus=Amelanchier
|species=Amelanchier alnifolia
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