| Sorbus sambucifolia (Cham. & Schlecht.) Roem. | |||
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| Family | Rosaceae — APG family: Rosaceae | ||
| Synonyms | Pyrus sambucifolia Cham. & Schlecht. | ||
| Description | Shrub up to 2 meters tall, in Alaska usually lower; winter buds glutinous, glabrous or somewhat rushy-pubescent; leaves with 7-11 ovate-lanceolate, acute, sharply serrulated, glabrous or sparsely pubescent leaflets, pale beneath; petioles reddish, with rust-colored pubescent stipules at base; inflorescence flat-topped, with rust- colored pubescence; calyx lobes ovate-triangular, fimbriate-ciliate; petals white or reddish; fruit bright red, spherical to elliptical, not very acid. | ||
| Ecology | Mountain slopes. | ||
| Uses | The fruit makes good jam. |
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.