When it blooms
In bloom: April to May
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How to grow it
- Light
- Full sun, Part shade
- Soil
- Dry, Moist
- Size
- 2.4 m–7.5 m
- Family
- Rosaceae
- Native to
- New Brunswick
What it feeds
Chokecherry is a host plant local wildlife depends on. These are the beings it brings back.
Wood ThrushThreatenedBirdIts flute-like song is fading from our woods. Native shrubs raise the caterpillars it needs to feed its chicks.
Eastern Whip-poor-willThreatenedBirdNamed for its haunting call, now seldom heard. It depends on the large moths native plants raise.
Photos: Photo by Mdf, CC BY-SA 3.0 · Photo by Dominic Sherony, CC BY-SA 2.0
Plant it with
Other native plants the Wood Thrush also depends on. Grow a few together and you give it food across the whole season.
Grow Chokecherry where you live
Add it to your garden on Hortus, get a free report card of the wildlife it brings back, and find a nursery near you that carries it.