DWARF SHAD BUSH; SWAMP Smut PEAR (Amelanchier obovalia, Ashe). Shrub to 30 feet. Bush of many stems, or slender, dense, round-topped tree, with slim twigs covered with dense, white wool when young. Bark pale, reddish brown, checked, with small, persistent scales. Wood like the preceding species. Leaves oblong or elliptical, smaller than those of preceding species, and hoary woolly beneath until full grown. Dark green, smooth above, dull beneath, turning yellow. Flowers like those of A. Canadensis, but smaller and more crowded. Fruit sweeter and more juicy than preceding
species, otherwise alike. Dist.: Swamp borders and along streams, Nova Scotia to Ontario and Minnesota; northward to the valley of the Mackenzie River; southward in the north ern tier of states, and along the mountains to Virginia; as a shrub, dwarfed throughout, near coast, in the South Atlantic and Gulf States to Alabama. A large-fruited form planted for its berries in the Middle West.