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

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



SYNONYMOUS WITH PLANTS NATIONAL DATABASE:
Crataegus brachyacantha   FAMILY Rosaceae

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

Crataegus brachyacantha

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

Crataegus brachyacantha

SYNONYMOUS WITH Manual of the Southeastern Flora (Small, 1933, 1938)

Crataegus brachyacantha

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

Crataegus brachyacantha

 

COMMON NAME:
Blueberry Hawthorn


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image of Crataegus brachyacantha, Blueberry Hawthorn

Manual of the Trees of North America (Exclusive of Mexico) (Sargent, 1905)    mtna_i_565

        

image of Crataegus brachyacantha, Blueberry Hawthorn

Ron Lance    rwl2169_a

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The only eastern hawthorn with black fruit, looking blue due to a waxy bloom, per Weakley's Flora (2020).

 

 

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

SYNONYMOUS WITH PLANTS NATIONAL DATABASE:
Crataegus brachyacantha   FAMILY Rosaceae

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

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

SYNONYMOUS WITH Manual of the Southeastern Flora (Small, 1933, 1938)
Crataegus brachyacantha

SYNONYMOUS WITH Beadle in Flora of the Southeastern US (Small, 1913)
Crataegus brachyacantha

 

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2169

Tree
Perennial

Habitat: Oak flatwoods, bottomland forests, margins of prairies and saline barrens, pine flatwoods, per Weakley's Flora

Native to Georgia

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

LEAVES:
Deciduous
Simple
Alternate
Petioles winged to near base (any unwinged portion <5mm), eglandular

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

Inflorescences of 8-15 flowers

FRUIT:
Summer/Fall
Black appearing blue due to waxy bloom
Pome

 

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