Question: Hi: I'm trying to identify a flowering shrub that I photographed on Blueberry Hill in Rome, Maine. The site is …
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Hi: I'm trying to identify a flowering shrub that I photographed on Blueberry Hill in Rome, Maine. The site is a sloping meadow on the side of the hill, studded with granite bedrock and boulders. The elevation is around 655 feet. Some of these shrubs are growing among the Lowbush Blueberries covering the slope.
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Dear Don, good morning. The shrub in your pictures is Prunus pensylvanica (pin cherry), a common, spring flowering (native) plant of Maine. It has the flowers arranged in a fascicle (rather than a raceme like choke cherry) and has only one style in the center of the flower (shadbushes, also flowering now, have 5 styles).
