Snowy Mespilus
Amelanchier ovalis Medik.
- light
- Sun–part
- water
- Medium
- tall
- 4.5 m
- wide
- 3.2 m
Rosaceae
Formerly Aronia amelanchier, Crataegus amelanchier, Mespilus amelanchier, Prunus amelanchier, and 2 more
When it flowers
Not known yet in the tropics: too few flowering observations to read a season from.
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Something wrong with it?About it
- Wild in
- Europe to Caucasus, NW. AfricaKew's checklist, not yet checked
- Light
- Full sun to part shade (3 h or more)Read from RHS, one source
- Height
- 4.0 m to 5.0 mRead from RHS and Wikipedia, checked by a majority of its sourcesBacked by both sources. Sources differ: RHS 4–8 m; Wikipedia 3–5 m
- Spread
- 2.5 m to 4.0 mRead from RHS, one source
- Water
- Average: moist, well drainedRead from RHS and Wikipedia, not yet checked: its sources are splitTied: no reading has a majority of the 2 sources, so all are kept for a person to settle. Sources differ: RHS medium; Wikipedia low
- Coldest it survives
- -20 °C (USDA zone 6b)Read from RHS, one source
Not known yet: grows as, climate, heat, hottest it survives.
In other languages (12)
- Catalan
- Corner
- Slovenian
- šmarna hrušica, navadna šmarna hrušica
- Aragonese
- Senera
- Asturian
- molléndanu
- Azerbaijani
- Girdəyarpaq irqa
- Belarusian
- Ірга круглалістая
- Bulgarian
- Обикновената ирга
- Czech
- muchovník vejčitý
- Danish
- Rundbladet Bærmispel
- German
- Gewöhnliche Felsenbirne
- Spanish
- Abellomo
- Finnish
- Euroopantuomipihlaja
Where this comes from
- Wikidata, read 2026-10-25, CC0-1.0
- Kew's checklist, read 2026-10-24, CC-BY-4.0
- RHS, read 2026-10-25, fact, cited
- Wikipedia, read 2026-10-25, fact, cited
- Wikimedia Commons, read 2026-10-25, Public domain
- 3D model: Amelanchier ovalis (built for Vanagrha) by Vanagrha, own
A fact “checked by a majority of its sources” was settled by a vote of the pages it was read from, not by a person reading it; one marked “one source” rests on that page alone. Anything else not marked checked has not been checked yet. Where nothing is known, the page says so rather than guess.