| Sorbus sitchensis Roem. | |||
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| Family | Rosaceae — APG family: Rosaceae | ||
| Description | Shrub up to 3 meters tall, bark reddish; winter buds rusty-pubescent; leaflets 7-11, oblong to oblong-obovate, coarsely serrate, rounded in apex, glabrous above, more or less rusty-pubescent and paler beneath; inflorescence rounded, with rusty- pubescent branches; sepals glabrous, broadly triangular; petals white; fruit sub- globose to elliptic, red with bluish bloom. | ||
| Ecology | Woods, up into subalpine region. | ||
| Taxonomy notes | South of the Pleistocene glaciation, chiefly subsp. Grayi (Wentzig) Calder & Taylor (S. sambucifolia var. Grayi Wentzig), with leaflets less toothed. |
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.