| Scientific Name: | Sorbus aria |
| Common Name: | common whitebeam |
| Family Name: | Rosaceae |
| Origin: | Canada - eastern, U.S. - northeast |
| Hardiness Zone: | Zone 5: (-29 to -23 °C) |
| Plant Type: | Tree - deciduous |
| Mature Size: | 10 - 15m x 7 - 10m (height x width) |
| Habit: | Upright |
| Form: | Round |
| Texture: | Medium |
| Landscape Uses: | Attract birds, Screening, Shade tree, Wildlife food, Woodland margin |
| Exposure: | Full sun |
| Soil or Media: | Rocky or gravelly or dry |
| Leaves: | Simple, Alternate, Soft flexible, Pinnate venation, Pubescent, Lanceolate, Serrate |
| Flowers: | Cyme, White, Apr-May |
| Fruit: | Pome, Orange, Red, Aug |
| Key ID Features: | |
| Rounded small tree; leaves simple, broadly elliptic, toothed, hairy, grey-green; flowers creamy-white; fruit orange-red, clustered. Winter ID: twigs reddish brown with grey pubescence; no terminal buds; lateral buds ovoid, most 6-9mm long with about 7 spiralled, imbricate scales; leaf scares mostly crescent shapes with 3 bundle scars. | |