American Mountain Ash
Sorbus americana
American mountain-ash brightens cool northern woods and mountainsides with flat clusters of white bloom and, by fall, blazing orange-red berries that waxwings and grosbeaks strip quickly. Needs cool, moist, acidic soil.
- Family
- Rosaceae
- Type
- tree
- Lifespan
- perennial
- Height
- 15–30 ft
- Spacing
- 15–25 ft apart
- Light
- sun, part shade, shade
- Soil moisture
- dry
- Soil pH
- acidic, neutral
- Bloom
- April, May, June
- Bloom colors
- white
- Wildlife value
- songbirds, larval host
- Caterpillar hosts
- ~68 butterfly & moth species
- Landscape uses
- naturalizing
- Native states
- CT, GA, IL, MA, MD, ME, MI, MN, NC, NH, NJ, NY, PA, SC, TN, VA, VT, WI, WV