Need a break? Play the USA TODAY Daily Crossword Puzzle. Indian plum,Oemleria cerasiformis, is a fast-growing perennial, 10-foot-tall deciduous shrub or small tree that spreads by suckers and shoots.

The clusters of white, funnel-shaped blooms of Indian plum are an early sign from nature that the doldrums of winter soon will pass. That’s because this shrub, which also is considered a small ...

In Latin it is called Amelanchier. In English it is known as saskatoon, serviceberry, sarvisberry, juneberry, Indian plum, sugarplum, wild-plum, chuckley pear, bilberry, pigeon berry, shadbush ...