2830

Shrub; Tree
Perennial

Native to North Carolina

Documented growing wild in - NC -

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
10 stamens (anthers white or pink)
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 p187
• Haws: A Guide to Hawthorns of the Southeastern US p189

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

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

SYNONYMOUS WITH Flora of North America
Crataegus dodgei

INCLUDING Haws: A Guide to Hawthorns of the Southeastern US (Lance, 2014)
Crataegus dodgei var. dodgei

INCLUDING Haws: A Guide to Hawthorns of the Southeastern US (Lance, 2014)
Crataegus dodgei var. flavida

INCLUDING New England Wildflower Society’s Flora Novae Angliae (Haines, 2011)
Crataegus dodgei

INCLUDING New England Wildflower Society’s Flora Novae Angliae (Haines, 2011)
Crataegus flavida