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  2. Plants
  3. Vascular Plants
  4. Dicots
  5. Roses, Elms, Figs, and Allies
  6. Rose Family
  7. Maleae
  8. Chokeberries

genus

Chokeberries

Aronia

Traits
Includes
2 native
Where
In the US
Source
iNaturalist

Field notes

Children

  • Black Chokeberry native
  • Red Chokeberry native
  • Aronia mitschurinii introduced
  • Purple Chokeberry native

Range

United States

Greener is more native, amber more introduced; paler is less certain. How this was decided

Key traits

Layer
Shrubs
Plant type
Perennial Shrub

From USDA PLANTS.

Top native chokeberries All

Native to the US, ranked by caterpillars, then bees and other hosts, food, flowers and shelter.

  • Black Chokeberry Aronia melanocarpa caterpillars 19 food 10 flowers 65
  • Red Chokeberry Aronia arbutifolia caterpillars 3 food 10 flowers 37

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