Details for: Ames 27371, Aronia melanocarpa (Michx.) Elliott, 'Morton'


Summary Data
Taxonomy:
Aronia melanocarpa (Michx.) Elliott
Cultivar:
'Morton'
Origin:
Collected – Illinois, United States
Maintained:
Historic Record
Received by NPGS:
24 Aug 2004
Improvement Status:
Cultivar
Form Received:
Cutting
Life Cycle:
Perennial
Life Habit:
Shrub
Availability
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Core Passport Data
Taxonomy:
Aronia melanocarpa (Michx.) Elliott
Cultivar:
'Morton'
Origin:
Collected – Illinois, United States
Maintained:
Historic Record
Received by NPGS:
24 Aug 2004
Improvement Status:
Cultivar
Form Received:
Cutting
Life Cycle:
Perennial
Life Habit:
Shrub
Source History
Collected
14 October 1978.
Illinois, United States
Locality: Rutland Bog, formerly known as Henpeck Bog located approximately 3.5 miles south of Huntley, T47N R7E NW 1/4 SW 1/4 Sec. 16, Kane County.
Coordinates: 42.1170, -88.4310 (Map it)
Elevation: 278m.
Georeference protocol: Lat/Lon determined via Map location
Habitat: Wild Habitat
Environment description: Peat based bog. High-quality native site. Growing in association with Betula pumila, Carex spp., Populus tremuloides, Triadenum fraseri, Rubus allegheniensis, Ilex verticillata, Dryopteris spinulosa, Dryopteris thelypteris var. pubescens, Rhamnus frangula, Bidens cernua, Ludwigia palustris, Erechtites hieracifolia, Chamaedaphne calyculata var. angustifolia, and Pteridium aquilinum.

Developed

Illinois, United States

Developer(s):
Donated
24 August 2004.
Michigan, United States

Donor(s):
Accession Group(s)
Group name: NC7.Regional.Ornamental.Plant.Trials
Note: Accessions distributed through the NC-7 Regional Woody Ornamental Trials.
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Accession Names and Identifiers
'Morton'
Type: Cultivar name

Ames 27371
Type: Site identifier
Group: AMES
NC-7 Research Numbers

CG95-004
Type: Other or unclassified name
Accession number of the Chicagoland Grows program.

Iroquois Beauty
Type: Trademark name

Narrative
Selection from the collections at The Morton Arboretum, Lisle, Illinois. It originated from seed collected in a bog habitat in Kane County, Illinois. Multi-stemmed, deciduous shrub selected for its unique compact, non-leggy habit, showy display of small white flower clusters, glossy foliage, abundant production of black fruit, and attractive orange to deep red fall foliage. Establishes quickly and slowly forms colonies via root suckers. Grows less than 3 feet high with a 5 foot spread in ten years. Growth rate slow to medium. Flowers are showy 2-inch-wide clusters of small white flowers; produced early to mid-May. Lustrous dark green foliage remains clean and disease-free all summer, turning an attractive orange to deep red in fall; best fall color develops on plants sited in full sunlight. Black to purplish-black fruit; 1/3 inch berrylike fruits are borne in slightly pendulous clusters; fruit can persist until late fall/early winter, although native birds can consume the majority of the fruit earlier. USDA Hardiness Zones 3-8.
Aronia melanocarpa (Michx.) Elliott
Genus:
Aronia
Family:
Rosaceae
Subfamily:
Amygdaloideae
Tribe:
Maleae
Subtribe:
Malinae
Nomen number:

4247
Place of publication:

Sketch bot. S. Carolina 1:557. 1821
Verified:
12/11/2003 by ARS Systematic Botanists.
Other conspecific taxa
Autonyms (not in current use), synonyms and invalid designations
Basionym
Mespilus arbutifolia L. var. melanocarpa Michx.

Homotypic Synonym(s)
Aronia nigra (Medik.) Dippel
Aronia nigra (Willd.) Koehne
Photinia melanocarpa (Michx.) K. R. Robertson & J. B. Phipps
Pyrus melanocarpa (Michx.) Willd.

Heterotypic Synonym(s)
Aronia melanocarpa Spach
Hahnia arbutifolia (L.) Medik. var. nigra Medik.
Pyrus arbutifolia (L.) L. f. var. nigra Willd.
Pyrus nigra (Willd.) Sarg.

Common names
LanguageNameAlternate namenoteseqCitation
Englishblack chokeberry  1Huxley, A., ed. 1992. The new Royal Horticultural Society dictionary of gardening
English (Canada)black chokecherry Agriculture & Agri-Food Canada official name2Darbyshire, S. J. 2003. Inventory of Canadian Agricultural Weeds Agriculture and Agri-Food Canada. 131.
French (Canada)aronie à fruit noir Agriculture & Agroalimentaire Canada nom officiel2Darbyshire, S. J. 2003. Inventory of Canadian Agricultural Weeds Agriculture and Agri-Food Canada. 131.
GermanApfelbeere  2Rehm, S. 1994. Multilingual dictionary of agronomic plants
Germankahle Apfelbeere  2Erhardt, W. et al. 2008. Der große Zander: Enzyklopädie der Pflanzennamen 2:1220.
Swedishsvartaronia  2Aldén, B., S. Ryman, & M. Hjertson. 2012. Svensk Kulturväxtdatabas, SKUD (Swedish Cultivated and Utility Plants Database; online resource)
Annotations
Other Links
NC7 Trials Plant Description
Actions
  • Description Of NC7 Ornamental Trials: The NC-7 Regional Ornamental Plant Trials, began in 1954 through the efforts of a small group of dedicated horticulturists under the leadership of Professor S.A. McCrory of South Dakota State College (now University). The north central United States is a region of climatic extremes, and many parts of the region have alkaline soils that developed under grasslands. Because of these conditions, the diversity found in commercially available woody plants adapted to the area is less than that found in most other parts of our nation. The NC-7 Regional Ornamental Plant Trials were started with the ultimate goal of expanding the range of useful plants in the nursery trade. The emphasis in this program has been placed on detailed, long-term evaluations at a broad range of sites rather than on promotion of new plants. The NC-7 Trials rely on a network of horticultural cooperators located at sites scattered across the Central United States. Cooperators establish plantings, observe and evaluate the plants through the seasons, and prepare performance reports one, five, and ten years after planting. These reports are sent to the North Central Regional Plant Introduction Station (NCRPIS) in Ames, Iowa where they are recorded. Because of the broad range of environments found among the trial sites, it is unusual for any particular trial plant to perform well at a majority of the sites, making system-wide releases difficult. However, when plants perform especially well at sites, the NCRPIS Horticulturist assists trial site cooperators in introducing the new plants, with any official releases initiated through the cooperators' institutions rather than through the Plant Introduction Station.
Pathogens
Vouchers
Herbarium specimen
  • 26 May 2012. Located at MOR - Morton Arboretum, Lisle, IL. Identifier: 175652 - #0061628MOR. Inventory sample: Ames 27371. Sampled by J. Coffey in assistance with J. Johnson.
  • 14 Oct 1978. Located at MOR - Morton Arboretum, Lisle, IL. Identifier: 35499 - #0026173MOR. Inventory sample: Ames 27371. Sampled by Ray Schulenberg in assistance with W. Wilson.
  • 26 Aug 1976. Located at MOR - Morton Arboretum, Lisle, IL. Identifier: 22511 - #0026184MOR. Inventory sample: Ames 27371. Sampled by Ray Schulenberg (#76-621) in assistance with Ed Hedborn.
  • 25 May 1954. Located at Illinois Natural History Survey. Identifier: 66880 - #ILLS00033022. Inventory sample: Ames 27371. Sampled by Robert A. Evers (#42626).
  • 09 Oct 1953. Located at Illinois Natural History Survey. Identifier: 59937 - #ILLS00033023. Inventory sample: Ames 27371. Sampled by Robert A. Evers (#41842).
Citations
Pedigree

Observations

Phenotype Data

CategoryDescriptorDescriptionValueSample SizeStudyInventoryAvailability
COMMENTECOREGIONOmernik Level III Ecoregion where germplasm was collected in nature.Central Corn Belt Plains - Central Corn Belt Plains OMERNIK LEVEL III ECOREGION Not Available
COMMENTUSDA Cold Hardiness ZoneUSDA Cold Hardiness Zone in which the germplasm was originally collected in nature.5b USDA COLD HARDINESS ZONE Not Available