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Sorbus aucuparia
Also called European Rowan, European mountain ash, Mountain Ash, Rowan Berry, Quicken Tree, Dogberry, Quickbeam
Rowan (Sorbus aucuparia) is a small deciduous tree or shrub in the rose family, native to much of Europe and parts of Asia, valued for its white spring flowers, red autumn berries and hardiness. It is a highly variable species, and it grows best in cool climates with moist soil and full sun.
Sorbus aucuparia, commonly called rowan (, also UK: ) and mountain-ash, is a species of deciduous tree or shrub in the rose family.
The tree has a slender trunk with smooth bark, a loose and roundish crown, and its leaves are pinnate in pairs of leaflets on a central vein with a terminal leaflet. It flowers from May to June in dense corymbs of small creamy-white flowers and develops small red pomes as fruit that ripen from August to October and are eaten by many bird species.
Sorbus aucuparia is found in five subspecies:
Mountain Ash · Alniaria folgneri · Micromeles hemsleyi · Micromeles thibetica · American mountain-ash · Kashmir Rowan · Japanese Rowan · Sorbus forrestii · Sorbus frutescens · Hedlundia intermedia · Sorbus poteriifolia · Sorbus pseudohupehensis
Text excerpted from the Wikipedia article Sorbus aucuparia by its contributors, under CC BY-SA 4.0; the excerpts and the care summary drawn from them are shared under the same licence.
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.
