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| | | range_map_caption = Range of Sorbus sitchensis | | | range_map_caption = Range of Sorbus sitchensis |
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| − | '''''Sorbus sitchensis''''', also known as '''western mountain ash'''<ref>{{PLANTS|id=SOSI2|taxon=Sorbus sitchensis|accessdate=24 November 2015}}</ref> and '''Sitka mountain-ash''', is a small [[shrub]] of northwestern [[North America]].
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| − | A multistemmed shrub, it is [[Endemism|endemic]] to northwestern [[North America]], from the [[Pacific Ocean|Pacific]] coast of [[Alaska]], to the mountains of [[Washington (state)|Washington]], [[Oregon]] and northern [[California]] and eastward to parts of [[Idaho]] and western [[Alberta]] and [[Montana]]. It is widespread in [[British Columbia]].<ref name= "Pojar1994" >{{cite book | last = Pojar | first = Jim |author2=Andy MacKinnon | title = Plants of the Pacific Northwest | publisher = Lone Pine Publishing | pages = 71 | date = 1994 | isbn = 1-55105-042-0}}</ref>
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| − | [[Image:Sorbus_sitchensis_26638.JPG|left|thumb|''Sorbus sitchensis'' fall foliage and fruit]]
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| − | The otherwise similar ''[[Sorbus scopulina]]'' has yellow-green sharp-pointed leaflets that are sharply serrated over most of their length.
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| − | * Winter buds: Not sticky with rusty hairs.
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| − | * Leaves: Alternate, compound, six to ten inches long, Leaflets seven to ten, blue-green, lanceolate or long oval, with rounded tip, toothed usually from the middle to the end. In autumn they turn yellow, orange and red. Stipules leaf-like, caducous.
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| − | * Flowers: After the leaves are fully grown, June through September.<ref name="Sullivan2013">{{cite web | last = Sullivan | first = Steven. K. | title = Sorbus sitchensis | work = Wildflower Search | date = 2013 | url = http://www.wildflowersearch.com/search?oldstate=bloom%3AIgnore%3B&PlantName=Sorbus+sitchensis | accessdate = 2013-03-17 }}
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| − | </ref> White, small, 80 or fewer, borne in flat compound cymes three or four inches across.
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| − | * Fruit: Berry-like pome, globular, one-quarter of an inch across, bright pinkish<ref name=McAllister2005/> red, borne in cymous clusters.
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| − | [[Category:Sorbus|sitchensis]]
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