Sorbus californica - Unknown
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Internal ID UUID6440403a1d66e912296566
Scientific name Sorbus californica
Authority Greene
First published in Pittonia 4: 131 (1900)

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Sorbus californica, also known as the California mountain ash, is a species of rowans native to western North America. It is found in the mountains of California and is sometimes cultivated. It has orange-red fruit and compound leaves with many leaflets that are toothed almost from base to apex. It is often mistaken for the western North American species S. occidentalis which has pinkish fruit and leaflets with fewer teeth.

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Scientific name Authority First published in
Sorbus cascadensis G.N.Jones Univ. Wash. Publ. Biol. 7: 174 (1938)
Sorbus sitchensis subsp. californica (Greene) Abrams Ill. Fl. Pacific States 2: 470 (1944)
Sorbus scopulina var. cascadensis (G.N.Jones) C.L.Hitchc. Vasc. Pl. Pacific NorthW. 3: 189 (1961)

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Language Common/alternative name
English california mountain ash
English california mountain-ash
Arabic غبيراء كاليفورنية
Icelandic spörvareynir
koi Калифорнияись пелідз

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  • Northern America
    • Northwestern U.S.A.
      • Oregon
    • Southwestern U.S.A.
      • California
      • Nevada

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Database ID/link to page
World Flora Online wfo-0001015078
USDA Plants SOCA8
Tropicos 27801425
KEW urn:lsid:ipni.org:names:240781-2
The Plant List rjp-6185
Open Tree Of Life 873704
NCBI Taxonomy 141006
Nature Serve 2.156419
IPNI 240781-2
iNaturalist 79158
GBIF 3012369
Freebase /m/09rtd5b
EOL 636860
Calflora (Californian flora) 7685
USDA GRIN 459315
Wikipedia Sorbus_californica

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Past Climate Change and Plant Evolution in Western North America: A Case Study in Rosaceae Töpel M, Antonelli A, Yesson C, Eriksen B PLoS One 07-Dec-2012
PMCID:PMC3517582
doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0050358
PMID:23236369

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