Status: Native
Synonyms:
Sorbus dumosa Greene
Sorbus scopulina is an upper elevation shrub. It has pinnately compound leaves with glabrous serrate leaflets that are about 40mm long. The rachis of the leaf (petiole as it continues into the leaf) and the winter bud are white hairy. It has white flowers and orange or red fruit (a berry-like pome.)
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Sorbus scopulina, photo Russ Kleinman, Bill Norris, Richard Felger, Leith Young, Ed & Dorea Gilbert, Patrick Alexander, Mogollon Mtns., near Bead Spring
Sorbus scopulina, closeup of leaf, photo Russ Kleinman, Bill Norris, Richard Felger, Leith Young, Ed & Dorea Gilbert, Patrick Alexander, Mogollon Mtns., near Bead Spring
Sorbus scopulina, closeup of leaflet, photo Russ Kleinman, Bill Norris, Richard Felger, Leith Young, Ed & Dorea Gilbert, Patrick Alexander, Mogollon Mtns., near Bead Spring
Sorbus scopulina, macro of leaf rachis, photo Russ Kleinman, Bill Norris, Richard Felger, Leith Young, Ed & Dorea Gilbert, Patrick Alexander, Mogollon Mtns., near Bead Spring
Sorbus scopulina, macro of winter bud, photo Russ Kleinman, Bill Norris, Richard Felger, Leith Young, Ed & Dorea Gilbert, Patrick Alexander, Mogollon Mtns., near Bead Spring
Sorbus scopulina, DAZ herbarium, collector Michael Baad, 15 June 1964, trail to Mogollon Baldy
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