Schubert Chokecherry

About Schubert Chokecherry in Alberta

Schubert Chokecherry is a planted ornamental cultivar of native chokecherry, best recognized by leaves that emerge green and turn burgundy to wine-purple by midsummer. In Alberta it is a familiar small ornamental tree for yards, streetscapes, boulevards, parks, and civic landscapes, not a wild native chokecherry stand. For ARA, heritage value comes from designed-landscape history, representative prairie urban planting, and unusually healthy older specimens surviving despite black knot pressure.

Identification: Leaves are simple, alternate, oval to elliptic, and serrated like chokecherry leaves. The defining trait is seasonal colour: foliage emerges green in spring and turns burgundy to wine-purple by midsummer.

Alberta range and habitat: Schubert Chokecherry is not a wild Alberta species entry. It is a planted cultivar of native chokecherry.