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| subgenus = ''[[Rowan|Sorbus]]'' |
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|sectio = ''Tianshanicae''<ref name=McAllister2005>McAllister, H.A. 2005. ''The genus Sorbus: Mountain Ash and other Rowans ''. Kew Publishing.</ref>| species = '''''S. sitchensis''''' |
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| binomial = ''Sorbus sitchensis'' |
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| binomial_authority = [[Max Joseph Roemer|M.Roem.]] |
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* Leaves: Alternate, compound, six to ten inches long, Leaflets seven to ten, blue-green, lanceolate or long oval, with rounded tip, toothed usually from the middle to the end. In autumn they turn yellow, orange and red. Stipules leaf-like, caducous. |
* Leaves: Alternate, compound, six to ten inches long, Leaflets seven to ten, blue-green, lanceolate or long oval, with rounded tip, toothed usually from the middle to the end. In autumn they turn yellow, orange and red. Stipules leaf-like, caducous. |
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* Flowers: After the leaves are full grown. White, small, 80 or fewer, borne in flat compound cymes three or four inches across. |
* Flowers: After the leaves are full grown. White, small, 80 or fewer, borne in flat compound cymes three or four inches across. |
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* Fruit: Berry-like pome, globular, one-quarter of an inch across, bright red, borne in cymous clusters. |
* Fruit: Berry-like pome, globular, one-quarter of an inch across, bright pinkish<ref name=McAllister2005/> red, borne in cymous clusters. |
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==References== |
==References== |
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Revision as of 22:19, 19 December 2009
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| Species: | S. sitchensis
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Sorbus sitchensis, also known as Sitka Mountain-ash, is a small shrub of the western United States.
Description
A multistemed shrub, it is indigenous to the Pacific Coast of the North America from Alaska to northern California and eastward to Idaho and western Montana.[2]
The otherwise similar Sorbus scopulina has yellow-green sharp-pointed leaflets that are sharply pointed over most of their length.
- Winter buds: Not sticky with rusty hairs.
- Leaves: Alternate, compound, six to ten inches long, Leaflets seven to ten, blue-green, lanceolate or long oval, with rounded tip, toothed usually from the middle to the end. In autumn they turn yellow, orange and red. Stipules leaf-like, caducous.
- Flowers: After the leaves are full grown. White, small, 80 or fewer, borne in flat compound cymes three or four inches across.
- Fruit: Berry-like pome, globular, one-quarter of an inch across, bright pinkish[1] red, borne in cymous clusters.
References
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