Black Chokeberry
Scientific Name:Aronia melanocarpa


NOTES: This plant is an open, upright, spreading, somewhat rounded but leggy, suckering, deciduous shrub that typically grows 3-6’ tall. It is native to low woods, swamps, bogs and moist thickets but occasionally to dry upland areas.

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Black Chokeberry
Genus species: Aronia melanocarpa
Common Name: Black Chokeberry
Family Name: Rosaceae  
Annual or perennial herbs, woody vines, shrubs, and trees; leaves mostly alternate, simple to compound, usually conspicuously stipulate; flowers mostly bisexual, regular; fruit types vary.
Seed Type: Angiosperm
Origin:  
Native: native to North America.
Non-native: not native to North America.
Introduced Native: native to North
America, but not Rowe Woods.
* Definitions based on the USDA
terminology
Native
Category:Shrub
Flower Color:White
CNC Habitat: Krippendorf Arboretum
Polinator Garden
Identified by:J.D. Mancini

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