Plants Profile for Sorbus sitchensis grayi (western mountain ash)

General Information
Symbol:	SOSIG
Group:	Dicot
Family:	Rosaceae
Duration:	Perennial
Growth Habit:	Shrub Tree
Native Status:	AK N CAN N L48 N
Characteristics
Data Source and Documentation

	Native		Introduced		Both		Absent/Unreported
	Native, No County Data		Introduced, No County Data		Both, No County Data

L48

NAV

CAN

SPM

Images

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©Susan McDougall. Trees Live Here. United States, WA, Mount Adams, Bench Lake. August 9, 2004. Usage Requirements.

©Susan McDougall. Trees Live Here. United States, WA, Mount Adams. June 1, 2005. Usage Requirements.

©Lindsey Koepke. United States, WA, Pierce Co., Mount Rainier National Park, Paradise. July 9, 2005. Usage Requirements.

Synonyms

Symbol	Scientific Name
SOOC3	Sorbus occidentalis (S. Watson) Greene
SOSIG3	Sorbus sitchensis M. Roem. ssp. grayi (Wenzig) Calder & Roy L. Taylor

Classification

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Rank	Scientific Name and Common Name
Kingdom	Plantae – Plants
Subkingdom	Tracheobionta – Vascular plants
Superdivision	Spermatophyta – Seed plants
Division	Magnoliophyta – Flowering plants
Class	Magnoliopsida – Dicotyledons
Subclass	Rosidae
Order	Rosales
Family	Rosaceae – Rose family
Genus	Sorbus L. – mountain ash
Species	Sorbus sitchensis M. Roem. – western mountain ash
Variety	Sorbus sitchensis M. Roem. var. grayi (Wenzig) C.L. Hitchc. – western mountain ash

Subordinate Taxa

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Legal Status

Wetland Status

Interpreting Wetland Status