rowan
Sorbus aucuparia
RHS Plants for Pollinators
USDA zones3 to 6
SunNeeds full sun (6+ hours)
WaterHandles moderate to moist soil
Size20 to 40 feet tall8 to 20 feet wide
- Growth rate
- Moderate
- Habit
- Erect
- Bloom season
- Spring, summer, autumn
- Bloom color
- White
- Foliage color
- Green
- Soil types
- Sand, loam, clay
- Soil pH
- Acid, neutral
Garden uses
Attracts
Notes
Rowan (Sorbus aucuparia) is a tree for pollinator gardens, cottage gardens, and food gardens. It is hardy to USDA zone 3, or down to -40°F (-40°C). This plant likes full sun and average to moist, sandy, loamy, or clay soil. White flowers draw bees, and birds visit the tree too. It grows at a moderate pace with an erect shape, and it can reach 20 to 40 feet tall.
Pairs well with Karl Foerster feather reed grass, Arendsii azure monkshood, and Winter creeper.
Native range
Europe, Middle East, Central Asia, Asia, and 18 more places. See all 22
Europe, Middle East, Central Asia, Asia, Altay, Amur, Buryatiya, Corse, Irkutsk, Kamchatka, Khabarovsk, Krasnoyarsk, Krym, Magadan, Manchuria, NW. Balkan Pen., Primorye, Sardegna, Sicilia, Tuva, Türkiye, and Yakutiya.