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
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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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Manual of the Trees of North America (Exclusive of Mexico) (Sargent, 1905) mtna_i_565
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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
2169
Tree
Perennial
Habitat: Oak flatwoods, bottomland forests, margins of prairies and saline barrens, pine flatwoods, per Weakley's Flora
Native to Georgia
CLICK HERE to see a map, notes, and images from Weakley's Flora of the Southeastern US.
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
TO LEARN MORE about this plant, look it up in a good book!
- Haws: A Guide to Hawthorns of the Southeastern US (Lance, 2014) p407
- Woody Plants of the Southeastern US: A Winter Guide (Lance, 2004) p120
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