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Sorbus scopulina, also known as Greene's mountain-ash, is a North American species of rowan within the rose family. Although it may resemble poisonous species of baneberries , its own fruits are edible.
Green’s mountain ash (S. scopulina) is native to the mountains from Alaska to California, and east to the Rocky Mountains and Northern Great Plains. It grows as a multi-stemmed shrub that is ...
Sorbus sitchensis, commonly known as western mountain ash [1] and Sitka mountain-ash, is a small species of shrub of northwestern North America. Description [ edit ]
Sorbus is a genus of over 100 species of trees and shrubs in the rose family, Rosaceae.Species of Sorbus are commonly known as rowan or mountain-ash.Currently, species commonly known as whitebeam, chequer tree and service tree are classified in other genera (see below), so that genus Sorbus includes only the pinnate leaved species of former subgenus Sorbus.
Sorbus decora is very similar to the closely related American mountain-ash (Sorbus americana). Like the American mountain-ash, the showy mountain-ash has odd-pinnately compound leaves and often large clusters of flowers and fruits. Showy mountain-ash can be distinguished by its shiny, sticky buds, [6] and its slightly larger flowers and fruit. [2]
The following species are recognised in the genus Sorbus, many of which are called rowans or mountain-ashes: [1] This list follows a narrow definition of genus Sorbus; species that have been moved to the genera Aria, Torminalis, Cormus, Chamaemespilus, Hedlundia, Scandosorbus, Karpatiosorbus, Mayovskya and Normeyera are not listed.
Sorbus dumosa may refer to several different species of plants: Sorbus dumosa House, a synonym for Sorbus decora, northern mountain ash; Sorbus dumosa Greene, a synonym for Sorbus scopulina, Greene's mountain-ash; Sorbus dumosa G.N.Jones, an unplaced species of plant that cannot be brought into synonymy
The rowans (/ ˈ r aʊ ə n z / ROW-ənz or / ˈ r oʊ ə n z / ROH-ənz) [1] or mountain-ashes are shrubs or trees in the genus Sorbus of the rose family, Rosaceae.They are native throughout the cool temperate regions of the Northern Hemisphere, with the highest species diversity in the Himalaya, southern Tibet and parts of western China, where numerous apomictic microspecies occur. [2]