Sorbus scopulina var. scopulina
Cascade Mountian Ash

Family: Rosaceae (Rose family)

Photo taken in Icicle River Canyon, partially shaded wooded area

Flowers:

flowers in panicles, many flowered; flowers complete, epigynous; calyx 5 lobed; 5 petals and sepals; ovary inferior; 3 to 4 styles; 15 to 20 stamens

Leaves:

alternate, deciduous; pinnate, 11 to 13 leaflets; leaflets lanceolate, 1/3 as wide as long, finely serrated along most of the length, tip acute or shortly acuminate; stipules generally not persistent in fruit

Plant:

shrub, mostly 1 to 5 meters tall

Habitat:

Distribution of species:

southern Alaska to northern California, mainly in the east Cascades, east to the Dakotas, and south to Utah and New Mexico

Distribution of genus:

more or less 80 species: northern temperate regions