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Hedlundia mougeotii
Mougeot's whitebeam is a deciduous shrub or small tree from the mountains of central and western Europe, grown in northern Europe as an ornamental, especially for tolerance of urban and poor soils. It is often sold under the name Sorbus intermedia.
Hedlundia mougeotii, formerly Sorbus mougeotii, the Vosges whitebeam or Mougeot's whitebeam, is a species of whitebeam native to the mountains of central and western Europe from the Pyrenees east through the Alps to Austria, and north to the Vosges Mountains.
It is widely grown as an ornamental tree in northern Europe, though usually unrecognised, misidentified as Hedlundia intermedia. Although described in 1858, it was only brought into widespread cultivation in the 1950s by the Danish Heath Society, being sold as a "new improved form of Sorbus intermedia", sometimes with the cultivar name 'Latifolia' (additionally leading to confusion with Aria latifolia, syn. Sorbus latifolia). It is valued for its tolerance of urban conditions and difficult soil, and is very commonly planted in land reclamation schemes on slag heaps and roadside shrub planting. It has also proved very tolerant of oceanic climates with cold summers, growing much better than S. intermedia in coastal conditions north to the Faroe Islands.
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The care summary was written by AI (Claude, Anthropic) from the sources on this page, with general growing knowledge where they are silent. Check before relying on it.
Life form, climate and native range: World Checklist of Vascular Plants, Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (CC BY 3.0), reformatted; see Plants of the World Online.
