#288 most planted
Sorbus americana
American mountain-ash · also Mountain-ash, Dogberry, Roundwood
Deciduous
4,722
trees mapped
0.05%
of all named trees
19
cities
5.1 in
median trunk (13 cm, 4,596 measured)
8.4 yr
median age (28% have a planting date)
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The American mountain-ash is a deciduous perennial tree native to eastern North America.
Where it grows
Trees in each city's inventory, with the share of that city's named trees this species accounts for.
- 1,9430.37%—7.9 in
- 1,8230.38%8.4 yr3.9 in
- 4670.07%—6.7 in
- 1380.05%—2.4 in
- 870.05%—10 in
- 700.04%—5.9 in
- 400.08%5.8 yr—
- 330.01%6.7 yr2.0 in
- 300.01%—2.4 in
- 270.04%7.8 yr2.0 in
- 210.04%—3.9 in
- 120.02%—1.6 in
- 90.00%35 yr1.5 in
- 90.03%—3.1 in
- 40.00%—26 in
- 30.01%—3.1 in
- 30.02%—8.1 in
- 20.00%—9.3 in
- 10.00%——
Traits
- Foliage
- Deciduous
Trunk diameters across every city: median 5.1 in, mean 7.1 in, 90th percentile 15 in. Measured at breast height, as published by each inventory.
Native range
Terrestrial ecoregions where this species is native. Trees in the dataset mostly stand well outside it.
Temperate Broadleaf & Mixed Forests
- Eastern Canadian Forest-Boreal transition
- Eastern Great Lakes lowland forests
- New England-Acadian forests
Other Sorbus in the catalogue
21 of the top 2,000 species are in this genus.
