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§1 Plant
Sorbus americana Marshall
vernacular American mountain ash — species · Rosaceae
§2Habit & range
Habit and range
- Growth habit
- Shrub, Tree
- Duration
- Perennial
- Group
- Dicot
- Family
- Rosaceae Juss.
- Genus
- Sorbus
§2a
Native status, by region
- CAN Canada Native
- L48 Lower 48 States Native
- SPM St. Pierre & Miquelon Native
§2b
County-level range
· 193 counties across 17 states/territories§3Cultivation specs · USDA
Recorded by the USDA Plant Materials Program.
§3a
Tolerances
- Drought
- Low
- Shade
- Medium
- Moisture use
- Medium
- Fire
- Low
- Salinity
- None
- Anaerobic
- Low
- CaCO₃
- Low
- Hedging
- None
§3b
Climate & soil
- Cold tolerance
- -38 °F minimum
- Frost-free days
- 90 min.
- Precipitation
- 24–60 in/yr
- pH range
- 5.3–6.8
- Root depth
- 28 in min.
- Fertility need
- Medium
- Soil texture
- coarse, medium, fine
§3c
Form & growth
- Growth form
- Single Stem
- Growth rate
- Moderate
- Lifespan
- Moderate
- Mature height
- 40 ft
- Height @ 20 y
- 30 ft
- Foliage texture
- Fine
- Foliage colour
- Green
- Porosity (summer)
- Moderate
- Porosity (winter)
- Porous
- Flower colour
- White
- Fruit colour
- Orange
- Fire resistant
- No
- N fixation
- None
- Toxicity
- None
§3d
Reproduction
- Bloom period
- Early Summer
- Seed abundance
- High
- Seed begins
- Summer
- Seed ends
- Fall
- Spread rate
- Slow
- Stratify
- Yes
- Seeds / lb
- 160,000
- Propagation
- seed, bare root, container
§3e
Use & availability
- Commercial availability
- Routinely Available
- Nursery stock
- Yes
- Browse palatability
- High
- Graze palatability
- Low
- Palatable, human
- No
- Protein potential
- Low
- Lumber
- No
- Christmas tree
- No
§4Counties, by state
Recorded in 193 counties across 17 states/territories.
Georgia view state ↗ 3 N ▾
Illinois view state ↗ 1 N ▾
Maine view state ↗ 14 N ▾
Massachusetts view state ↗ 7 N ▾
Michigan view state ↗ 17 N ▾
Minnesota view state ↗ 6 N ▾
New Hampshire view state ↗ 8 N ▾
New Jersey view state ↗ 6 N ▾
New York view state ↗ 22 N ▾
- Albany 36001
- Allegany 36003
- Cattaraugus 36009
- Cayuga 36011
- Chautauqua 36013
- Columbia 36021
- Cortland 36023
- Delaware 36025
- Erie 36029
- Essex 36031
- Franklin 36033
- Hamilton 36041
- Herkimer 36043
- Lewis 36049
- Oneida 36065
- Orange 36071
- Oswego 36075
- Rensselaer 36083
- Ulster 36111
- Warren 36113
- Wayne 36117
- Westchester 36119
North Carolina view state ↗ 13 N ▾
Pennsylvania view state ↗ 32 N ▾
- Bedford 42009
- Berks 42011
- Blair 42013
- Bradford 42015
- Carbon 42025
- Centre 42027
- Clearfield 42033
- Clinton 42035
- Columbia 42037
- Crawford 42039
- Elk 42047
- Erie 42049
- Fayette 42051
- Forest 42053
- Huntingdon 42061
- Lackawanna 42069
- Lawrence 42073
- Lehigh 42077
- Luzerne 42079
- Lycoming 42081
- McKean 42083
- Monroe 42089
- Northampton 42095
- Schuylkill 42107
- Snyder 42109
- Somerset 42111
- Sullivan 42113
- Susquehanna 42115
- Warren 42123
- Wayne 42127
- Westmoreland 42129
- Wyoming 42131
South Carolina view state ↗ 1 N ▾
Tennessee view state ↗ 6 N ▾
Vermont view state ↗ 12 N ▾
Virginia view state ↗ 27 N ▾
- Albemarle 51003
- Alleghany 51005
- Amherst 51009
- Augusta 51015
- Bath 51017
- Bedford 51019
- Bland 51021
- Botetourt 51023
- Buchanan 51027
- Craig 51045
- Floyd 51063
- Frederick 51069
- Giles 51071
- Grayson 51077
- Greene 51079
- Highland 51091
- Madison 51113
- Nelson 51125
- Page 51139
- Rappahannock 51157
- Rockbridge 51163
- Rockingham 51165
- Russell 51167
- Smyth 51173
- Tazewell 51185
- Warren 51187
- Washington 51191
West Virginia view state ↗ 11 N ▾
§5Sources & provenance
USDA PLANTS
Symbol, taxonomy, distribution, cultivation specs, native status. Public domain.
plants.usda.gov/SOAM3 ↗GBIF Backbone
Canonical taxonomic identity, synonym resolution, cross-refs. CC0.
gbif.org/species/7779378 ↗Record version
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