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WEAKLEY'S FLORA OF THE SOUTHEASTERN US (4/24/22):
Pyracantha coccinea   FAMILY Rosaceae   Go to FSUS key



SYNONYMOUS WITH PLANTS NATIONAL DATABASE:
Pyracantha coccinea   FAMILY Rosaceae

SYNONYMOUS WITH Floristic Synthesis of North America. BONAP (Kartesz, 2021)

Pyracantha coccinea

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

Pyracantha coccinea

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

Cotoneaster pyracantha

SYNONYMOUS WITH Linnaeus

Crataegus pyracantha

 

COMMON NAME:
Scarlet Firethorn, Pyracantha


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image of Pyracantha coccinea, Scarlet Firethorn, Pyracantha

USDA-NRCS PLANTS Database / Britton, N.L., and A. Brown. 1913    pnd_copy3_001_lvd

        

image of Pyracantha coccinea, Scarlet Firethorn, Pyracantha

Paul Thompson    pstpyracantha_spp

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WEAKLEY'S FLORA OF THE SOUTHEASTERN US (4/24/22):
Pyracantha coccinea   FAMILY Rosaceae

SYNONYMOUS WITH PLANTS NATIONAL DATABASE:
Pyracantha coccinea   FAMILY Rosaceae

SYNONYMOUS WITH Floristic Synthesis of North America. BONAP (Kartesz, 2021)
Pyracantha coccinea

SYNONYMOUS WITH Flora of North America north of Mexico, vol. 9
Pyracantha coccinea

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

SYNONYMOUS WITH Linnaeus
Crataegus pyracantha

 

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2607

Shrub
Perennial

Habitat: Planted, persistent around old homesites, and rarely escaped to woodlands, per Weakley's Flora

Non-native: southeast Europe & Asia Minor

Rare

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Invasive?

This plant may be causing problems in natural areas outside its native range, according to authorities such as:

 

IS THE PLANT "ARMED"?
Armed with spinose spur shoots

LEAVES:
Evergreen/Semi-evergreen
Simple
Alternate
Margins crenulate to serrulate for at least half blade length

FLOWER:
Spring
Whitish
Radially symmetrical
5 united sepals
5 petals
Bisexual

FRUIT:
Summer/Fall
Orange-red
Berry-like pome

 

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