Rosaceae
Greene's mountain ash
Sorbus scopulina
- Family
- Rosaceae
- Genus
- Sorbus
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Common names
By language (2)
- English
- Greene's mountain ash, Cascade mountain ash, Cascade mountain-ash, Greene's mountain-ash
- Icelandic
- Klettareynir
Synonyms
- Pyrus andersonii (G.N.Jones) M.F.Fay & Christenh.
- Pyrus cascadensis (G.N.Jones) M.F.Fay & Christenh.
- Pyrus scopulina (Greene) M.F.Fay & Christenh.
- Pyrus scopulina (Greene) Longyear
- Sorbus alaskana G.N.Jones
- Sorbus andersonii G.N.Jones
- Sorbus angustifolia Rydb.
- Sorbus cascadensis G.N.Jones
- Sorbus dumosa Greene
- Sorbus scopulina var. cascadensis (G.N.Jones) C.L.Hitchc.
- Sorbus scopulina var. scopulina
- Sorbus sitchensis subsp. densa (Jeps.) A.E.Murray
- Sorbus sitchensis var. densa Jeps.
Flowers
- Flower colour
- white (USDA PLANTS Database)
Characteristics
- Growth habit
- Shrub, Tree
- Lifespan
- Perennial
- In the US and Canada
- Alaska: native, Canada: native, Lower 48 states: native
Photos
Photo: Matt Lavin from Bozeman, Montana, USA, CC BY-SA 2.0, from Wikimedia Commons Photo: Clément George, CC BY-SA 4.0, from Pl@ntNet via GBIF 
Photo: Matt Lavin from Bozeman, Montana, USA, CC BY-SA 2.0, from Wikimedia Commons Photo: richard rettig, CC BY-SA 4.0, from Pl@ntNet via GBIF 
Photo: Matt Lavin from Bozeman, Montana, USA, CC BY-SA 2.0, from Wikimedia Commons Photo: Dan Haynes, CC BY-SA 4.0, from Pl@ntNet via GBIF 
Photo: Matt Lavin from Bozeman, Montana, USA, CC BY-SA 2.0, from Wikimedia Commons Photo: Dan Haynes, CC BY-SA 4.0, from Pl@ntNet via GBIF 
Photo: Matt Lavin from Bozeman, Montana, USA, CC BY-SA 2.0, from Wikimedia Commons Photo: Dan Haynes, CC BY-SA 4.0, from Pl@ntNet via GBIF 
Photo: Matt Lavin from Bozeman, Montana, USA, CC BY-SA 2.0, from Wikimedia Commons Photo: Dan Haynes, CC BY-SA 4.0, from Pl@ntNet via GBIF
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Sources: classification, synonyms from World Flora Online Plant List (2026-06, CC0 1.0); common names, popularity from Wikidata (2026-10-26, CC0 1.0); common names, US characteristics from USDA PLANTS Database (2025-05-29, CC0 1.0). About our plant data.