page_title: Sorbus sitchensis
section_title: Description
hierarchical_section_title: Sorbus sitchensis / Description
caption_attribution_description: Sorbus sitchensis English: Sitka Mountain-ash
context_page_description: Sorbus sitchensis, also known as western mountain ash and Sitka mountain-ash, is a small shrub of northwestern North America.
context_section_description: A multistemmed shrub, it is endemic to northwestern North America, from the Pacific coast of Alaska, to the mountains of Washington, Oregon and northern California and eastward to parts of Idaho and western Alberta and Montana. It is widespread in British Columbia.
  The otherwise similar Sorbus scopulina  has yellow-green sharp-pointed leaflets that are sharply serrated over most of their length.
  Winter buds
  Not sticky with rusty hairs.
  Leaves
  Alternate, compound, six to ten inches long,   Leaflets seven to ten, blue-green, lanceolate or long oval, with rounded tip, toothed usually from the middle to the end. In autumn they turn yellow, orange and red.  Stipules leaf-like, caducous.
  Flowers
  After the leaves are fully grown, June through September.  White, small, 80 or fewer, borne in flat compound cymes three or four inches across.
  Fruit
  Berry-like pome, globular, one-quarter of an inch across, bright pinkish red, borne in cymous clusters. They are enjoyed by the Richardson's grouse.
caption: Sorbus sitchensis fall foliage and fruit
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