OF THE CAROLINAS & GEORGIA

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

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



SYNONYMOUS WITH PLANTS NATIONAL DATABASE:
Crataegus schuettei   FAMILY Rosaceae

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

Crataegus schuettei

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

Crataegus schuettei

INCLUDED WITHIN VASCULAR FLORA OF THE CAROLINAS (Radford, Ahles, & Bell, 1968) 097-20-004:

Crataegus flabellata   FAMILY Rosaceae

INCLUDING Beadle in Flora of the Southeastern US (Small, 1913)

Crataegus basilica

 

COMMON NAME:
Schuette's Hawthorn


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image of Crataegus schuettei, Schuette's Hawthorn

Manual of the Trees of North America (Exclusive of Mexico) (Sargent, 1905)    mtna_i_494

        

Cratægus basilica

image of Crataegus schuettei, Schuette's Hawthorn

USDA-NRCS PLANTS Database / Britton, N.L., and A. Brown. 1913    pnd_cral8_001_lvd

        

image of Crataegus schuettei, Schuette's Hawthorn

JK Marlow    jkm060429_191

April    Clay County    NC

Nantahala National Forest: Tusquitee Ranger District

20 stamens and glandular-serrate calyx lobes the chief diagnostic features, per Haws: A Guide to Hawthorns of the Southeastern US (Lance, 2014).

image of Crataegus schuettei, Schuette's Hawthorn

JK Marlow    jkm060429_192

April    Clay County    NC

Nantahala National Forest: Tusquitee Ranger District

Inflorescence glabrous, flowering when leaves are about half grown, per Haws: A Guide to Hawthorns of the Southeastern US (Lance, 2014).

image of Crataegus schuettei, Schuette's Hawthorn

JK Marlow    jkm150814_751

August    Jackson County    NC

Whiteside Mountain

Persistent stamen filaments can often be counted even on mature fruit, per Haws: A Guide to Hawthorns of the Southeastern US (Lance, 2014).

image of Crataegus schuettei, Schuette's Hawthorn

JK Marlow    jkm150814_752

August    Jackson County    NC

Whiteside Mountain

Leaves ovate to deltate and often mistaken for C. macrosperma, per Haws: A Guide to Hawthorns of the Southeastern US (Lance, 2014).

image of Crataegus schuettei, Schuette's Hawthorn

JK Marlow    jkm150814_753

August    Jackson County    NC

Whiteside Mountain

image of Crataegus schuettei, Schuette's Hawthorn

JK Marlow    jkm150814_755

August    Jackson County    NC

Whiteside Mountain

Closely related to C. macrosperma Ashe, per Weakley's Flora (2020).

image of Crataegus schuettei, Schuette's Hawthorn

Ron Lance    rwlc_schuettei

September-October    Macon County    NC

Fruits subglobose to oblong, per Haws: A Guide to Hawthorns of the Southeastern US (Lance, 2014).

 

 

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

SYNONYMOUS WITH PLANTS NATIONAL DATABASE:
Crataegus schuettei   FAMILY Rosaceae

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

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

INCLUDED WITHIN VASCULAR FLORA OF THE CAROLINAS (Radford, Ahles, & Bell, 1968) 097-20-004:
Crataegus flabellata   FAMILY Rosaceae

INCLUDING Beadle in Flora of the Southeastern US (Small, 1913)
Crataegus basilica

 

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Shrub; Tree
Perennial

Habitat: Mesic upland forests, thin woodlands, brushy fields, rock outcrops, sometimes locally abundant, per Weakley's Flora

Native to North Carolina

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

LEAVES:
Deciduous
Simple
Alternate
Petioles 1/3-2/3 length of blade, eglandular or remotely glandular in spring

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

Inflorescences of 3-12 flowers

FRUIT:
Summer/Fall
Red
Pome

 

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