Sorbus sambucifolia(Cham. & Schltdl.) M.Roem.

Siberian mountain ash

WFO wfo-0001015117 Accepted WFO 2026-06 8 photographs CC BY

Plate 1 figs. a–h · 8 separate observations

Sorbus sambucifolia, photographed by Nina Filippova
fig. a Nina Filippova, CC BY 4.0 / 2021-08-31 / obs. 155686416
Sorbus sambucifolia, photographed by Nina Filippova
fig. b Nina Filippova, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 155679335
Sorbus sambucifolia, photographed by Marco Mussita
fig. c Marco Mussita, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 90201325
Sorbus sambucifolia, photographed by Marco Mussita
fig. d Marco Mussita, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 52387357
Sorbus sambucifolia, photographed by Marco Mussita
fig. e Marco Mussita, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 50466487
Sorbus sambucifolia, photographed by Marco Mussita
fig. f Marco Mussita, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 25470472
Sorbus sambucifolia, photographed by Marco Mussita
fig. g Marco Mussita, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 25511069
Sorbus sambucifolia, photographed by Nina Filippova
fig. h Nina Filippova, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 157731587

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Native range 8 botanical countries

Regions where Sorbus sambucifolia is native: Japan, Kamchatka, Khabarovsk, Korea, Magadan, Primorye, Sakhalin, Alaska JapanKamchatkaKhabarovskMagadanPrimoryeSakhalinAlaska Korea
Native distribution of Sorbus sambucifolia, after Kew’s World Checklist of Vascular Plants. Introduced, extinct and doubtful records are excluded, so this is where the plant is from, not everywhere it now grows. Regions too small to draw at this scale are marked with a dot.
RegionTDWG codeContinent
Japan JAP ASIA-TEMPERATE
Kamchatka KAM
Khabarovsk KHA
Korea KOR
Magadan MAG
Primorye PRM
Sakhalin SAK
Alaska ASK NORTHERN AMERICA

Region boundaries approximated from Natural Earth (public domain) and mapped to TDWG World Geographical Scheme for Recording Plant Distributions (WGSRPD) level-3 botanical countries (Brummitt 2001). Indicative, not the official WGSRPD geometry.

Also published as 9 synonyms

A synonym is not an error. It is a record of botanists disagreeing, in print, about where this plant belongs. Each of these was somebody’s considered answer.

  • Pyrus sambucifolia Cham. & Schltdl.
  • Pyrus sambucifolia var. platyphyllaria Cardot
  • Pyrus sambucifolia var. pseudogracilis (C.K.Schneid.) Cardot
  • Pyrus sambucifolia var. pumila Raf. ex Sarg.
  • Sorbus pseudogracilis (C.K.Schneid.) Koehne
  • Sorbus sambucifolia var. pseudogracilis C.K.Schneid.
  • Sorbus sambucifolia var. pumila Raf. ex Koehne
  • Sorbus sambucifolia var. typica C.K.Schneid.
  • Sorbus schneideriana Koehne

Sourcesevery claim on this page

  1. World Flora Online Plant List. accepted name, authority, classification. CC0. Retrieved 2026-07-12.
  2. iNaturalist. photographs and flowering annotations, CC0 / CC BY / CC BY-SA only. per photograph. Retrieved 2026-06-27.
  3. Wikidata. common name (P1843), joined on the World Flora Online identifier (P7715). CC0. Retrieved 2026-07-13.
  4. Kew, World Checklist of Vascular Plants (WCVP v16). native distribution by TDWG level-3 botanical country, and life form. CC BY 3.0. Retrieved 2026-06-04.

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