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Latin name

Family

Distribution

North America distribution zone

Height

Foliage

Ecology

Use

Synonym

English name

French name

Spanish name

Other name

Trade name

Sorbus americana Marshall

Rosaceae

NC NE MC ME North America (Canada: Ontario to Newfoundland; USA: Minnesota to Maine to Georgia)

NC NE MC ME

S[M]

hel hyg->[xer]

dr (fruits used in popular medicine are rich in C vitamin and iron and are laxative, diuretic, astringent and digestive) dr(ob) (stimulant) fd (fruits recolted after frost time give juice, jelly, jam, marmelade and are used in wine preparation and alcoolic drink aromatized with sorb) fd(ob) (Algonquin prepared an alcoolic drink by boiling its young branches with new branches of white spruce, leaves of Gaultheria procumbens and flowers of Sambucus canadensis in a little bit of wine, Amerindians picked up the fruits dryed and grinded them to obtain flour) fr (fruits eaten by birds and black bear) pl (ornamental)

Aucuparia americana (Marshall) Nieuwl. Pyrus americana (Marshall) DC. Pyrus microcarpa (Pursh) Spreng.

American mountainash; American mountain ash, American mountain-ash (Canada); American rowan-tree; catberry (USA); dogberry, missey-moosey, mountain ash (Canada, USA) mountain-ash, pigberry; roundwood (Canada, USA); rowan-berry, rowan-tree (USA); servicetree

sorbier d'Amérique; cormier, maska, maskouabina (Canada); sorbier des montagnes d'Amérique, sorbier maskoubina

Amerikanische Eberesche, Eberesche (german); sorbo americano (italian)

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Latin name	Sorbus americana Marshall
Family	Rosaceae
Distribution	NC NE MC ME North America (Canada: Ontario to Newfoundland; USA: Minnesota to Maine to Georgia)
North America distribution zone	NC NE MC ME
Height	S[M]
Foliage	D
Ecology	hel hyg->[xer]
Use	dr (fruits used in popular medicine are rich in C vitamin and iron and are laxative, diuretic, astringent and digestive) dr(ob) (stimulant) fd (fruits recolted after frost time give juice, jelly, jam, marmelade and are used in wine preparation and alcoolic drink aromatized with sorb) fd(ob) (Algonquin prepared an alcoolic drink by boiling its young branches with new branches of white spruce, leaves of Gaultheria procumbens and flowers of Sambucus canadensis in a little bit of wine, Amerindians picked up the fruits dryed and grinded them to obtain flour) fr (fruits eaten by birds and black bear) pl (ornamental)
Synonym	Aucuparia americana (Marshall) Nieuwl. Pyrus americana (Marshall) DC. Pyrus microcarpa (Pursh) Spreng.
English name	American mountainash; American mountain ash, American mountain-ash (Canada); American rowan-tree; catberry (USA); dogberry, missey-moosey, mountain ash (Canada, USA) mountain-ash, pigberry; roundwood (Canada, USA); rowan-berry, rowan-tree (USA); servicetree
French name	sorbier d'Amérique; cormier, maska, maskouabina (Canada); sorbier des montagnes d'Amérique, sorbier maskoubina
Spanish name
Other name	Amerikanische Eberesche, Eberesche (german); sorbo americano (italian)
Trade name