OF THE CAROLINAS & GEORGIA

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

WEAKLEY'S FLORA OF THE SOUTHEASTERN US (4/24/22):
Crataegus iracunda var. iracunda   FAMILY Rosaceae   Go to FSUS key



INCLUDED WITHIN PLANTS NATIONAL DATABASE:
Crataegus iracunda   FAMILY Rosaceae

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

Crataegus iracunda

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

Crataegus populnea

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

Crataegus iracunda var. iracunda

SYNONYMOUS WITH Floristic Synthesis of North America (Kartesz, 1999)

Crataegus iracunda

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 iracunda var. iracunda

INCLUDING Britton & Brown Illus Flora of Northeast US & adjacent Canada (Gleason, 1952)

Crataegus iracunda var. silvicola

INCLUDING Britton & Brown Illus Flora of Northeast US & adjacent Canada (Gleason, 1952)

Crataegus populnea

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

Crataegus iracunda

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

Crataegus silvicola

 

COMMON NAME:
Forest Hawthorn, Stolon-bearing Hawthorn


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image of Crataegus iracunda var. iracunda, Forest Hawthorn, Stolon-bearing Hawthorn

Richard and Teresa Ware    rtw_crataegus_iracunda

April        

image of Crataegus iracunda var. iracunda, Forest Hawthorn, Stolon-bearing Hawthorn

Ron Lance    rwlciracunda_1

May    McCormick County    SC

ID requires a combination of vegetative and floral/fruiting characters, per Haws: A Guide to Hawthorns of the Southeastern US (Lance, 2014).

image of Crataegus iracunda var. iracunda, Forest Hawthorn, Stolon-bearing Hawthorn

Ron Lance    rwlciracunda_1b

May    McCormick County    SC

image of Crataegus iracunda var. iracunda, Forest Hawthorn, Stolon-bearing Hawthorn

Richard and Teresa Ware    rtw_c_iracunda_bark_1

June        

image of Crataegus iracunda var. iracunda, Forest Hawthorn, Stolon-bearing Hawthorn

Richard and Teresa Ware    rtw_c_iracunda_bark_3

June        

Note these stout compound thorns.

image of Crataegus iracunda var. iracunda, Forest Hawthorn, Stolon-bearing Hawthorn

Ron Lance    rwl2179_a

September        

Typical C. iracunda has hard red fruit with a sessile calyx, per Haws: A Guide to Hawthorns of the Southeastern US (Lance, 2014).

image of Crataegus iracunda var. iracunda, Forest Hawthorn, Stolon-bearing Hawthorn

Ron Lance    rwlciracunda_2

October    McCormick County    SC

Pubescence increases in the southern portions of C. iracunda's range, per Weakley's Flora (2020).

 

 

WEAKLEY'S FLORA OF THE SOUTHEASTERN US (4/24/22):
Crataegus iracunda var. iracunda   FAMILY Rosaceae

INCLUDED WITHIN PLANTS NATIONAL DATABASE:
Crataegus iracunda   FAMILY Rosaceae

INCLUDING Flora of North America north of Mexico, vol. 9
Crataegus iracunda

INCLUDING Flora of North America north of Mexico, vol. 9
Crataegus populnea

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

SYNONYMOUS WITH Floristic Synthesis of North America (Kartesz, 1999)
Crataegus iracunda

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 iracunda var. iracunda

INCLUDING Britton & Brown Illus Flora of Northeast US & adjacent Canada (Gleason, 1952)
Crataegus iracunda var. silvicola

INCLUDING Britton & Brown Illus Flora of Northeast US & adjacent Canada (Gleason, 1952)
Crataegus populnea

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

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

 

Find by SCIENTIFIC NAME:

2179

Tree
Perennial

Habitat: swamps, bottomlands, moist slopes, wooded hills, overall uncommon but sometimes locally abundant, per Weakley's Flora

Native to the Carolinas & Georgia

Uncommon (sometimes locally abundant)

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

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

FLOWER:
Spring
White
Radially symmetrical
5-lobed calyx
5 petals
5-10 stamens (anthers pink or purplish)
Inferior ovary
Bisexual

Inflorescences of 3-12 flowers

FRUIT:
Summer/Fall
Dull red or partially greenish
Pome

 

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