OF THE CAROLINAS & GEORGIA

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

WEAKLEY'S FLORA OF THE SOUTHEASTERN US (10/20/20):
 Crataegus opaca   FAMILY Rosaceae   Go to FSUS key

SYNONYMOUS WITH PLANTS NATIONAL DATABASE:
Crataegus opaca   FAMILY Rosaceae

SYNONYMOUS WITH Flora of North America north of Mexico, vol. 9 (2014)

Crataegus opaca

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

Crataegus opaca

 

COMMON NAME:
 Western Mayhaw

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image of Crataegus opaca, Western Mayhaw

Manual of the Trees of North America (Exclusive of Mexico) (Sargent, 1905)    mtna_i_468

        

 

 

WEAKLEY'S FLORA OF THE SOUTHEASTERN US (10/20/20):
 Crataegus opaca   FAMILY Rosaceae

SYNONYMOUS WITH PLANTS NATIONAL DATABASE:
Crataegus opaca   FAMILY Rosaceae

SYNONYMOUS WITH Flora of North America north of Mexico, vol. 9
 Crataegus opaca

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

 

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Tree
Perennial

Habitat: Bottomlands, swampy forests, lowland depressions and wetland soils where flooded for periods of the year, per Weakley's Flora

Native: west of the Carolinas & Georgia

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IS THE PLANT "ARMED"?
Armed with short moderately stout nodal thorns (< 4cm long, 1.5-3mm in diameter)

LEAVES:
Deciduous
Simple
Alternate
Petioles short, 3-10mm, eglandular

FLOWER:
Spring
White
Radially symmetrical
5-lobed calyx
5 petals
15-20 stamens (anthers yellow, pink or reddish)
Inferior ovary
Bisexual

Inflorescences of 1-5 flowers

FRUIT:
Spring
Red
Pome

 

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