Spermatophytes (seed plants): Angiosperms (flowering plants): Eudicots: Core Eudicots: Rosids: Fabids: Rosales
Series: Pruinosae
WEAKLEY'S FLORA OF THE SOUTHEASTERN US (4/24/22):
Crataegus pruinosa var. gattingeri
FAMILY
Rosaceae
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Dig deeper at SERNEC, a consortium of southeastern herbaria.
Read more about Gattinger's Hawthorn at Vascular Plants of North Carolina.
(?) INCLUDED WITHIN
PLANTS NATIONAL DATABASE:
Crataegus pruinosa
FAMILY
Rosaceae
SYNONYMOUS WITH Flora of North America north of Mexico, vol. 9 (2014)
Crataegus gattingeri
INCLUDING Haws: A Guide to Hawthorns of the Southeastern US (Lance, 2014)
Crataegus pruinosa var. gattingeri
INCLUDED WITHIN VASCULAR FLORA OF THE CAROLINAS (Radford, Ahles, & Bell, 1968) 097-20-004?:
Crataegus flabellata FAMILY Rosaceae
INCLUDING Britton & Brown Illus Flora of Northeast US & adjacent Canada (Gleason, 1952)
Crataegus gattingeri var. gattingeri
INCLUDING Britton & Brown Illus Flora of Northeast US & adjacent Canada (Gleason, 1952)
Crataegus gattingeri var. rigida
INCLUDING Beadle in Flora of the Southeastern US (Small, 1913)
Crataegus georgiana
COMMON NAME:
Gattinger's Hawthorn
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Manual of the Trees of North America (Exclusive of Mexico) (Sargent, 1905) mtna_i_483
Cratægus georgiana
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USDA-NRCS PLANTS Database / Britton, N.L., and A. Brown. 1913 pnd_crga4_001_lvd
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Ron Lance rwlcpruinosa_vgattinge1
April GA
The leaves' elongate terminal lobe resembles the northerly C. compacta, per Weakley's Flora (2020).
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Ron Lance rwlcpruinosa_vgattinge1b
April GA
Anthers smaller than those of the typical variety of C. pruinosa, per Haws: A Guide to Hawthorns of the Southeastern US (Lance, 2014).
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Ron Lance rwlcpruinosa_vgattinger2
September GA
Fruit globose, red, per Haws: A Guide to Hawthorns of the Southeastern US (Lance, 2014).
WEAKLEY'S FLORA OF THE SOUTHEASTERN US (4/24/22):
Crataegus pruinosa var. gattingeri
FAMILY
Rosaceae
(?) INCLUDED WITHIN
PLANTS NATIONAL DATABASE:
Crataegus pruinosa
FAMILY
Rosaceae
SYNONYMOUS WITH
Flora of North America north of Mexico, vol. 9
Crataegus gattingeri
INCLUDING
Haws: A Guide to Hawthorns of the Southeastern US (Lance, 2014)
Crataegus pruinosa var. gattingeri
INCLUDED WITHIN
VASCULAR FLORA OF THE CAROLINAS (Radford, Ahles, & Bell, 1968) 097-20-004?:
Crataegus flabellata
FAMILY
Rosaceae
INCLUDING
Britton & Brown Illus Flora of Northeast US & adjacent Canada (Gleason, 1952)
Crataegus gattingeri var. gattingeri
INCLUDING
Britton & Brown Illus Flora of Northeast US & adjacent Canada (Gleason, 1952)
Crataegus gattingeri var. rigida
INCLUDING
Beadle in Flora of the Southeastern US (Small, 1913)
Crataegus georgiana
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Tree
Perennial
Habitat: Hardwood and pine-hardwood woodlands, brush, pastures, per Weakley's Flora
Native to the Carolinas & Georgia
Uncommon (rare in Carolina Coastal Plain)
CLICK HERE to see a map, notes, and images from Weakley's Flora of the Southeastern US.
IS THE PLANT "ARMED"?
Armed with moderately stout nodal thorns (> 3cm long, 1.5-3mm in diameter)
LEAVES:
Deciduous
Simple
Alternate
Petioles 1/3 to equal blade length, eglandular, or remotely glandular in spring
FLOWER:
Spring
White
Radially symmetrical
5-lobed calyx
5 petals
20 stamens (anthers whitish or pink)
Inferior ovary
Bisexual
Inflorescences of 5-12 flowers
FRUIT:
Summer/Fall
Red
Pome
TO LEARN MORE about this plant, look it up in a good book!
- Haws: A Guide to Hawthorns of the Southeastern US (Lance, 2014) p164
- Native Shrubs and Woody Vines of the Southeast (Foote & Jones, 1989) p077?
- Trees of the Southeastern United States (Duncan & Duncan, 1988) p292?
- Wild Flowers of NC, 2nd edition (Justice, Bell, & Lindsey, 2005) p118?
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