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Series: Silvicolae
WEAKLEY'S FLORA OF THE SOUTHEASTERN US (4/24/22):
Crataegus iracunda var. iracunda
FAMILY
Rosaceae
Go to FSUS key
Dig deeper at SERNEC, a consortium of southeastern herbaria.
The nominate variety is said to occur statewide and var. populnea only in the mountains. Read more at Vascular Plants of North Carolina.
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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Richard and Teresa Ware rtw_crataegus_iracunda
April
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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).
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Ron Lance rwlciracunda_1b
May McCormick County SC
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Richard and Teresa Ware rtw_c_iracunda_bark_1
June
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Richard and Teresa Ware rtw_c_iracunda_bark_3
June
Note these stout compound thorns.
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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).
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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
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)
CLICK HERE to see a map, notes, and images from Weakley's Flora of the Southeastern US.
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
TO LEARN MORE about this plant, look it up in a good book!
- Haws: A Guide to Hawthorns of the Southeastern US (Lance, 2014) p175
- Native Shrubs and Woody Vines of the Southeast (Foote & Jones, 1989) p077?
- Trees of the Southeastern United States (Duncan & Duncan, 1988) p292?
- Wild Flowers of NC, 2nd edition (Justice, Bell, & Lindsey, 2005) p118?
- Woody Plants of the Southeastern US: A Winter Guide (Lance, 2004) p124
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