Taxon: Sorbus aucuparia L.

See also subordinate taxa:

• Sorbus aucuparia subsp. aucuparia (no accessions)
• Sorbus aucuparia subsp. maderensis (no accessions)
• Sorbus aucuparia subsp. pohuashanensis (15 accessions)
• Sorbus aucuparia subsp. praemorsa (no accessions)
• Sorbus aucuparia subsp. sibirica (2 accessions)

Common names:

• Amur mountain-ash   (Source: Herbs Commerce ed2 [as S. pohuashanensis]) – English   [Sorbus aucuparia subsp. pohuashanensis]
  
• European mountain-ash   (Source: Hortus 3 [as S. aucuparia]) – English   [Sorbus aucuparia subsp. aucuparia]
  
• mountain-ash   (Source: Zander Ency ) – English   [Sorbus aucuparia subsp. aucuparia]
  
• quick beam   (Source: Mansf Ency [as S. aucuparia]) – English   [Sorbus aucuparia subsp. aucuparia]
  
• quickbeam   (Source: Hortus 3 ) – English
  
• rowan   (Source: Dict Rehm ) – English
  
• rowan   (Source: Zander Ency ) – English   [Sorbus aucuparia subsp. aucuparia]
  
• rowan-berry   (Source: CRC MedHerbs ed2 ) – English
  
• hua qui shu   (Source: F ChinaEng [as S. pohuashanensis]) – Transcribed Chinese   [Sorbus aucuparia subsp. pohuashanensis]
  
• røn   (Source: Mansf Ency [as S. aucuparia]) – Danish   [Sorbus aucuparia subsp. aucuparia]
  
• sorbier des oiseleurs   (Source: Dict Rehm [as S. aucuparia]) – French   [Sorbus aucuparia subsp. aucuparia]
  
• Eberesche   (Source: Dict Rehm ) – German
  
• gemeine Eberesche   (Source: Mansf Ency [as S. aucuparia]) – German   [Sorbus aucuparia subsp. aucuparia]
  
• gewöhnliche Eberesche   (Source: Zander Ency ) – German   [Sorbus aucuparia subsp. aucuparia]
  
• gewöhnliche Vogelbeere   (Source: Zander Ency ) – German   [Sorbus aucuparia subsp. aucuparia]
  
• Pohuasha-Eberesche   (Source: Zander Ency [as S. pohuashanensis]) – German   [Sorbus aucuparia subsp. pohuashanensis]
  
• süße Eberesche   (Source: Zander Ency [as S. aucuparia subsp. moravica (Zenderl.) Á. Löve]) – German   [Sorbus aucuparia subsp. aucuparia]
  
• Vogelbeerbaum   (Source: Dict Rehm ) – German
  
• Vogelkirsche   (Source: S. Reichel, p.c.) – German
  
• sorbo selvatico   (Source: Mansf Ency [as S. aucuparia]) – Italian   [Sorbus aucuparia subsp. aucuparia]
  
• sorveira   (Source: Dict Rehm ) – Portuguese
  
• rjabina obyknovennaja   (Source: Mansf Ency ) – Transliterated Russian
  
• serbal de cazadores   (Source: Dict Rehm [as S. aucuparia]) – Spanish   [Sorbus aucuparia subsp. aucuparia]
  
• rönn   (Source: Mansf Ency [as S. aucuparia]) – Swedish   [Sorbus aucuparia subsp. aucuparia]
  
• rönn   (Source: Vara kulturvaxt namn ) – Swedish
  
• sötrönn   (Source: Vara kulturvaxt namn ) – Swedish   [Sorbus aucuparia subsp. aucuparia]
  

More:

see MMPND for additional names in foreign scripts

Economic importance:

• Environmental: ornamental   (fide Dict Gard; Eur Gard F)
  
• Gene sources: ornamental features   (fide Dict Gard; Eur Gard F)
  
• Medicines: folklore   (fide CRC MedHerbs ed2; Herbs Commerce ed2)
  
• Weed: potential seed contaminant   (fide Rep NCEPPC)
  

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Distributional range:

• AFRICA
  Macaronesia: Portugal - Madeira Islands
• ASIA-TEMPERATE
  Western Asia: Turkey
  Caucasus: Armenia; Azerbaijan; Russian Federation - Ciscaucasia, Dagestan
  Siberia: Russian Federation - Altay, Buryatia, Chita, Gorno-Altay, Irkutsk, Kemerovo, Krasnoyarsk, Kurgan, Novosibirsk, Omsk, Tomsk, Tuva, Tyumen, Yakutia-Sakha
  Mongolia: Mongolia [n.e.]
  Russian Far East: Russian Federation - Amur, Kamchatka, Khabarovsk, Primorye
  China: China - Gansu, Hebei, Heilongjiang, Jilin, Liaoning, Nei Monggol, Shaanxi, Shandong, Shanxi
  Eastern Asia: Korea
• EUROPE
  Northern Europe: Denmark; Finland; Iceland; Ireland; Norway; Sweden; United Kingdom
  Middle Europe: Austria; Belgium; Czech Republic; Germany; Hungary; Netherlands; Poland; Slovakia; Switzerland
  East Europe: Belarus; Russian Federation - European part, Komi, Perm; Ukraine [incl. Krym]
  Southeastern Europe: Albania; Bosnia and Herzegovina; Bulgaria; Croatia; Greece; Italy [incl. Sicily]; Macedonia; Montenegro; Romania; Serbia; Slovenia
  Southwestern Europe: France [incl. Corsica]; Portugal; Spain

• AUSTRALASIA
  New Zealand: New Zealand
• NORTHERN AMERICA
  Canada
  United States

• also cultivated

References:

• Afonin, A. N., S. L. Greene, N. I. Dzyubenko, & A. N. Frolov, eds. Interactive agricultural ecological atlas of Russia and neighboring countries. Economic plants and their diseases, pests and weeds (on-line resource).
• Aldasoro, J. J. et al. 1998. The genus Sorbus (Maloideae, Rosaceae) in Europe and in North Africa: morphological analysis and systematics. Syst. Bot. 23:189–212.
• Aldén, B., S. Ryman & M. Hjertson. 2009. Våra kulturväxters namn - ursprung och användning. Formas, Stockholm (Handbook on Swedish cultivated and utility plants, their names and origin).
• Allan, H. H. B. et al. 1961–. Flora of New Zealand.
• Campbell, F. T., ed. 1995. Report of National Coalition of Exotic Plant Pest Councils. (unpublished draft)
• Davis, P. H., ed. 1965–1988. Flora of Turkey and the east Aegean islands.
• Duke, J. A. et al. 2002. CRC Handbook of medicinal herbs.
• Encke, F. et al. 1984. Zander: Handwörterbuch der Pflanzennamen, 13. Auflage.
• Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO). 2010. Ecocrop (on-line resource).
• Gabrielian, E. T. 1978. Sorbus in west Asia & Himalaya. 102.
• Gleason, H. A. & A. Cronquist. 1991. Manual of vascular plants of northeastern United States and adjacent Canada, ed. 2.
• Grubov, V. I. 2001. Key to the vascular plants of Mongolia. [treats subsp. sibirica at species rank].
• Hanelt, P., ed. 2001. Mansfeld's encyclopedia of agricultural and horticultural crops. Volumes 1-6.
• Hitchcock, C. L. et al. 1955–1969. Vascular plants of the Pacific Northwest.
• Huxley, A., ed. 1992. The new Royal Horticultural Society dictionary of gardening.
• Komarov, V. L. et al., eds. 1934–1964. Flora SSSR.
• Krasnoborov, I. M., ed. 2000–. Flora of Siberia (English translation). [treats subsp. sibirica at species rank].
• Lee, Y. N. 1997. Flora of Korea. [treats S. amurensis at species rank].
• Liberty Hyde Bailey Hortorium. 1976. Hortus third.
• McAllister, H. 2005. The genus Sorbus: mountain ash and other rowans.
• McGuffin, M., J. T. Kartesz, A. Y. Leung, & A. O. Tucker. 2000. Herbs of commerce, ed. 2.
• Porcher, M. H. et al. Searchable World Wide Web Multilingual Multiscript Plant Name Database (MMPND) (on-line resource).
• Press, J. R. & M. J. Short, eds. 1994. Flora of Madeira. [treats subsp. maderensis at species rank].
• Rehm, S. 1994. Multilingual dictionary of agronomic plants.
• Reichel, S. 1998. pers. comm. [re. German common names].
• Scoggan, H. J. 1978–1979. The flora of Canada, 4 vol.
• Tutin, T. G. et al., eds. 1964–1980. Flora europaea.
• Walters, S. M. et al., eds. 1986–. European garden flora.
• Wu Zheng-yi & P. H. Raven et al., eds. 1994–. Flora of China (English edition). [treats subsp. pohuashanensis at species rank].

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Search AGRICOLA article citation database for citations referencing Sorbus aucuparia.

Search NCBI's Entrez search engine for PubMed citations referencing Sorbus aucuparia.

Search Biodiversity Heritage Library for historical publications referencing Sorbus aucuparia.

Synonyms:

• Pyrus aucuparia (L.) Gaertn. [≡ Sorbus aucuparia subsp. aucuparia]
  (previously associated with 7 accessions)
• Pyrus aucuparia var. dulcis (Kraetzl) Asch. & Graebn. [= Sorbus aucuparia subsp. aucuparia]
  
• Pyrus lanuginosa (Kit.) DC. [= Sorbus aucuparia subsp. aucuparia]
  
• Pyrus pohuashanensis Hance [≡ Sorbus aucuparia subsp. pohuashanensis]
  
• Pyrus praemorsa Guss. [≡ Sorbus aucuparia subsp. praemorsa]
  
• Sorbus amurensis Koehne [= Sorbus aucuparia subsp. pohuashanensis]
  (previously associated with 2 accessions)
• Sorbus aucuparia var. dulcis Kraetzl [= Sorbus aucuparia subsp. aucuparia]
  
• Sorbus aucuparia var. edulis Dieck [= Sorbus aucuparia subsp. aucuparia]
  (previously associated with 4 accessions)
• Sorbus aucuparia f. fastigiata (Loudon) Rehder [= Sorbus aucuparia subsp. aucuparia]
  
• Sorbus aucuparia var. lanuginosa (Kit.) Beck [= Sorbus aucuparia subsp. aucuparia]
  (previously associated with 1 accession)
• Sorbus aucuparia var. maderensis Lowe [≡ Sorbus aucuparia subsp. maderensis]
  
• Sorbus aucuparia var. moravica Dippel [= Sorbus aucuparia subsp. aucuparia]
  (previously associated with 1 accession)
• Sorbus aucuparia var. pendula G. Kirchn. [= Sorbus aucuparia subsp. aucuparia]
  
• Sorbus aucuparia var. rossica Späth ex Koehne [= Sorbus aucuparia subsp. aucuparia]
  (previously associated with 4 accessions)
• Sorbus aucuparia var. xanthocarpa Hartwig & Rümpler [= Sorbus aucuparia subsp. aucuparia]
  
• (=) Sorbus kamtschatcensis Kom.
  (previously associated with 1 accession)
• Sorbus lanuginosa Kit. [= Sorbus aucuparia subsp. aucuparia]
  
• Sorbus maderensis (Lowe) Dode [≡ Sorbus aucuparia subsp. maderensis]
  
• Sorbus pohuashanensis (Hance) Hedl. [≡ Sorbus aucuparia subsp. pohuashanensis]
  (previously associated with 20 accessions)
• Sorbus sibirica Hedl. [≡ Sorbus aucuparia subsp. sibirica]
  (previously associated with 2 accessions)

Check other web resources for Sorbus aucuparia L.:

• Flora Europaea: Database of European Plants (ESFEDS)
• PLANTS: USDA-NRCS Database of Plants of the United States and its Territories
• BONAP: North American Plant Atlas of the Biota of North America Program
• Flora of China: Online version from Harvard University
• TROPICOS: Nomenclatural and Specimen Database of the Missouri Botanical Garden
• Mansfeld: Mansfeld's World Database of Agricultural and Horticultural Crops
• ICRA: International Cultivar Registration Authority (on-line resource). for Sorbus aucuparia cultivars
• ePIC: Electronic Plant Information Centre of Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew
• AGRICOLA: Article Citation Database or NAL Catalog of USDA's National Agricultural Library
• Entrez: NCBI's search engine for PubMed citations, GenBank sequences, etc.

Images:

• Seed: U.S. National Seed Herbarium image

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• Check PlantSystematics.org for additional images
• Images Note: Be advised that their identity may be inaccurate. Proper identification of a plant may require specialized taxonomic knowledge or comparison with properly documented herbarium material.

Abbreviations & symbols in GRIN Taxonomy

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