Common shrubs include bayberry, highbush blueberry, and shadbush. From Wordnik.com. [Narragansett Bay National Estuarine Research Reserve, Rhode Island] Reference
Also missing, Mr. Moore says, is some Nantucket shadbush, a rare tree. From Wordnik.com. [Mr. Ziff Lands in Middle of Shrub Scandal] Reference
Dominant shrubs include bayberry, black cherry, highbush blueberry, shadbush, poison ivy and European bittersweet. From Wordnik.com. [Narragansett Bay National Estuarine Research Reserve, Rhode Island] Reference
The central part of the island contains tall shrubs and trees such as red cedar, staghorn sumac, shadbush, and black willow. From Wordnik.com. [Narragansett Bay National Estuarine Research Reserve, Rhode Island] Reference
As one example, when the shadbush (shown) is in blossom along northeastern trout streams, Hendrickson mayflies start emerging. From Wordnik.com. [Look at Flowers, Catch More Fish] Reference
The central part of the island contains tall shrubs and sapling trees, including red cedar, staghorn sumac, shadbush, black cherry and black willow. From Wordnik.com. [Narragansett Bay National Estuarine Research Reserve, Rhode Island] Reference
The uplands are now covered with a dense shrub growth of bayberry, blueberry, arrowwood, and shadbush interspersed with red cedar, red maple, black cherry, pitch pine and oak. From Wordnik.com. [Narragansett Bay National Estuarine Research Reserve, Rhode Island] Reference
The uplands are now covered with dense shrub growth of arrowwood viburnum, bayberry, blueberry and shadbush, interspersed with red cedar, red maple, sapling oaks, pitch pine, black cherry, common greenbriar and blackberry. From Wordnik.com. [Narragansett Bay National Estuarine Research Reserve, Rhode Island] Reference
Danced on their stalks; the shadbush, white with flowers. From Wordnik.com. [Poems] Reference
Today, that shadbush and dozens of other flora native to the. From Wordnik.com. [WN.com - Articles related to '10 most wanted' plants inspected for clues to climate change] Reference
Nantucket shadbush, a sign that it was warm enough to bury the winter's dead. From Wordnik.com. [NYT > Home Page]
Above her ruddy head a shadbush bends itself, russet and white like her own woods-dress. From Wordnik.com. [The Joys of Being a Woman and Other Papers] Reference
Today, that shadbush and dozens of other flora native to the New York region face extinction. From Wordnik.com. [EcoEarth.Info Environment RSS Newsfeed] Reference
He includes fruits like juneberry, also known as serviceberry, shadbush or saskatoon (Amelanchier spp.). From Wordnik.com. [RutlandHerald.com] Reference
It is all gray boulder and brown, with a film of pale green over all, touched here and there by the dreamy white of the shadbush. From Wordnik.com. [The Joys of Being a Woman and Other Papers] Reference
The June-berry is a tree from ten to thirty feet in height, while its close relative, the shadbush, is a low tree and sometimes a shrub. From Wordnik.com. [On the Trail An Outdoor Book for Girls] Reference
American colonists once watched for the spring bloom of the Nantucket shadbush, a sign that it was warm enough to bury the winter's dead. From Wordnik.com. [WN.com - Business News] Reference
At the foot of the mountain the clintonia, or northern green lily, and the low shadbush were showing their berries, but long before the top was reached they were found in bloom. From Wordnik.com. [In the Catskills Selections from the Writings of John Burroughs] Reference
Today, that shadbush and dozens of other flora native to the New York region face extinction, a result of urban development and the encroachment of invasive plants from foreign lands, scientists from the. From Wordnik.com. [NYT > Home Page]
Today, that shadbush and dozens of other flora native to the New York region face extinction, a result of urban development and the encroachment of invasive plants from foreign lands, scientists from the Brooklyn Botanic Garden report. From Wordnik.com. [American Scientist Online] Reference
Resistance Growing to Ecologically Devastating Chinese Mining Invasion of Madang, Papua New Guinea American colonists once watched for the spring bloom of the Nantucket shadbush, a sign that it was warm enough to bury the winter's dead. From Wordnik.com. [EcoEarth.Info Environment RSS Newsfeed] Reference
At the same season strawberries grew there abundantly in the little hollows on the edge of the desert standing amid the beach-grass in the sand, and the fruit of the shadbush or Amelanchier, which the inhabitants call Josh-pears (some think from juicy?), is very abundant on the hills. From Wordnik.com. [Cape Cod] Reference
In addition to the Nantucket shadbush, sometimes called the Juneberry for its edible summer-ripening berries, the study found that at least 50 native varieties were in danger of extinction, including the coastal violet, a unique variety of violet with dissected leaves, and the hairy angelica, a small plant with a burst of tiny white flowers. From Wordnik.com. [NYT > Home Page]
Some regular landscape plants produce edible fruit as they grow normally: shadbush (Amelanchier), grape, blueberry (Vaccinium), flowering crabapple (Malus), mountain ash (Sorbus), Aronia and elderberry (Sambucus) are among the choices. From Wordnik.com. [The Milford Daily News Homepage RSS] Reference
The shadbush - early color in the woods. From Wordnik.com. [Press-Republican Homepage] Reference
Dunes in Ecoregion 84c support only a few species of grasses and other xerophytic herbaceous plants: 1) In the primary dune zone just inland of the beach, there is a sparse cover of dune grass and other members of its community, such as sea rocket, dusty miller, saltwort, and seaside spurge; 2) immediately inland, beach heather, together with a few members of the dune grass community, grow in swales and on flats; 3) further inland, in the secondary dune zone, is a low, shrub thicket primarily composed of bayberry, beach plum, shadbush, and highbush blueberry, with some low red cedar and scrub oak; and 4) in moist, protected hollows and swales of the secondary dune zone there are dune woodlands composed of American holly, black cherry, red cedar, red maple, pitch pine, hackberry, and sassafras. From Wordnik.com. [Ecoregions of New Jersey (EPA)] Reference
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