Sorbus × proctoriana
Mountain-Ash
Sorbus americana
Marshall Species
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- Botanical name
- Sorbus americana
- Also known as
- American Mountain Ash, American Mountain-Ash, Dogberry, Mountain-Ash, Roundwood
- Family
- Rosaceae
- Genus
- Sorbus
- Reference
- World Flora Online
How to grow Mountain-Ash
We have not written a growing guide for this species yet.
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Other names for this plant
These names have all been used for Sorbus americana but are no longer the accepted name. You may still meet them on old labels, in books, or in nursery catalogues.
Aucuparia americana
Crataegus americana
Pyrus americana
Pyrus americana
Pyrus americana subsp. microcarpa
Pyrus americana var. microcarpa
Pyrus microcarpa
Pyrus microcarpa
Sorbus americana
Sorbus americana subsp. microcarpa
Sorbus americana var. macrocarpa
Sorbus americana var. micrantha
Sorbus americana var. microcarpa
Sorbus aucuparia
Sorbus aucuparia var. americana
Sorbus humifusa
Sorbus micrantha
Sorbus microcarpa
Sorbus pumila
Sorbus riparia
Others in Sorbus
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