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2169

Tree
Perennial

Native to Georgia

Documented growing wild in GA - -

Rare

Look for it in open pinelands, per Weakley's Flora

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IS THE PLANT "ARMED"?
Armed with short moderately stout nodal thorns (< 2cm long, 1.5-3mm in diameter)

LEAVES:
Deciduous
Simple
Alternate
Petioles winged to near base (any unwinged portion <5mm), eglandular

FLOWER:
Spring
White
Radially symmetrical
5-lobed calyx
5 petals
15-20 stamens (anthers yellow)
Inferior ovary
Inflorescences of 8-15 flowers

FRUIT:
Summer/Fall
Black appearing blue due to waxy bloom
Pome

 

TO LEARN MORE about this plant, look it up in a good book!



Spermatophytes (seed plants): Angiosperms (flowering plants): Eudicots: Core Eudicots: Rosids: Fabids: Rosales
Series: Brevispinae

WEAKLEY'S FLORA (5/21/15):
 Crataegus brachyacantha   FAMILY Rosaceae

SYNONYMOUS WITH PLANTS NATIONAL DATABASE:
 Crataegus brachyacantha   FAMILY Rosaceae

SYNONYMOUS WITH Flora of North America
 Crataegus brachyacantha

SYNONYMOUS WITH Haws: A Guide to Hawthorns of the Southeastern US (Lance, 2014)
 Crataegus brachyacantha

 

COMMON NAME:
 Blueberry Hawthorn

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image of Crataegus brachyacantha, Blueberry Hawthorn

Ron Lance    rwl2169_a

September        

The only eastern hawthorn with black fruit, looking blue due to a waxy bloom, per Weakley's Flora.