2767

Shrub; Tree
Perennial

Native: north of the Carolinas

Documented growing wild in - - -

Rare

Look for it in mesic hardwood forests, streamside thickets, pastures, per Weakley's Flora

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...Moist

IS THE PLANT "ARMED"?
Armed w rather slender to moderately stout nodal thorns (> 3cm long, 1.5-3mm dia

LEAVES:
Deciduous
Simple
Alternate
Petioles slender, 1/3-3/4 length of blade, eglandular or slightly glandular

FLOWER:
Spring
White
Radially symmetrical
5-lobed calyx
5 petals
20 stamens (anthers whitish)
Inferior ovary
Inflorescences of 4-15 flowers

FRUIT:
Summer/Fall
Yellowish to red
Pome

 

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

• Haws: A Guide to Hawthorns of the Southeastern US p191

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

WEAKLEY'S FLORA (5/21/15):
Crataegus margarettae var. margarettae   FAMILY Rosaceae

INCLUDING PLANTS NATIONAL DATABASE:
Crataegus chrysocarpa   FAMILY Rosaceae

SYNONYMOUS WITH Flora of North America
Crataegus margarettae var. margarettae

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