Scientific name: Anthophyta: Dicotyledonae: Rosales: Rosaceae: Pyrus americana
Common Name: American Mountain-ash
Country: USA
State/District: WV
County: Tucker
Date: September 2002
Photographer: E. M. Barrows
Identifier: E. M. Barrows
Collector: not applicable
Location: Monongahela National Forest
Keywords: A FEFT FEtr Monongahela National Forest red fruits West Virginia white flowers
Additional Information:
American Mountain-ash is a close relative of Pears, and a very distant relative of Ashes.
American Mountain-ash is named after Ashes because its compound pinnate leaves resemble those of some ashes.
American Mountain-ash bore abundant fruit in 2002 in the Dolly Sods; however, it bore no fruit in some previous years.
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