| Sorbus scopulina Greene | |||
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| Family | Rosaceae — APG family: Rosaceae | ||
| Synonyms | Sorbus alaskana G. M. Jones. | ||
| Description | Shrub with several stems, up to 4 meters tall, with reddish bark; winter buds glossy, glutinous, more or less white-pubescent; leaflets 11-13, oblong-lanceolate, acuminate, sharply serrate or double-serrate, glabrous above, paler and often sparsely pilose beneath; inflorescence flat-topped; pedicels sparsely pilose, with whitish, appressed hairs; sepals pilose; petals ovate; fruit globose, orange to bright red, glossy. | ||
| Ecology | Woods, up into subalpine region. Described from Colorado and New Mexico. | ||
| Taxonomy notes | Hybrids with S. sitchensis occur. |
This is a digital representation of Eric Hultén’s ‘Flora of Alaska and Neighboring Territories: A Manual of the Vascular Plants’, which was published by Stanford University Press in 1968. The book was digitized by C. Webb (at UAMN) as part of the Flora of Alaska project, with funding by the US NSF (Grant 1759964 to Ickert-Bond & Webb), and with permission of Stanford University Press. Data and images © 1968 Board of Trustees of the Leland Stanford Jr. Univ. Usage licence: Creative Commons BY-NC-SA 4.0. NB: You may find OCR errors; please refer to the hard-copy if in doubt.