Greene's Mountain Ash
Sorbus scopulina
Greene's mountain ash is a western shrubby mountain-ash with ferny compound leaves, flat white flower clusters, and showy orange-red berry bunches that waxwings strip in fall. A cool-climate mountain shrub.
- Family
- Rosaceae
- Type
- tree
- Lifespan
- perennial
- Height
- 12–12 ft
- Spacing
- 8–15 ft apart
- Light
- sun, part shade, shade
- Soil moisture
- moist
- Soil pH
- acidic, neutral
- Bloom
- March, April, May, June
- Bloom colors
- white
- Wildlife value
- pollinators, songbirds, butterflies, larval host
- Caterpillar hosts
- ~68 butterfly & moth species
- Landscape uses
- specimen, hedge or screen
- Native states
- AK, AZ, CA, CO, ID, MT, NM, NV, OR, SD, UT, WA, WY