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Spermatophytes (seed plants): Angiosperms (flowering plants): Eudicots: Core Eudicots: Rosids: Fabids: Rosales
Series: Crus-galli    

WEAKLEY'S FLORA OF THE SOUTHEASTERN US (10/20/20):
 Crataegus crus-galli var. pyracanthifolia   FAMILY Rosaceae   Go to FSUS key

INCLUDING PLANTS NATIONAL DATABASE:
Crataegus limnophila   FAMILY Rosaceae

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

Crataegus crus-galli var. pyracanthifolia

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

Crataegus crus-galli var. pyracanthifolia

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

Crataegus crus-galli var. pyracanthifolia

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

Crataegus pyracanthoides var. arborea

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

Crataegus pyracanthoides

 

COMMON NAME:
 Narrowleaf Cockspur Hawthorn

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WEAKLEY'S FLORA OF THE SOUTHEASTERN US (10/20/20):
 Crataegus crus-galli var. pyracanthifolia   FAMILY Rosaceae

INCLUDING PLANTS NATIONAL DATABASE:
Crataegus limnophila   FAMILY Rosaceae

SYNONYMOUS WITH Flora of North America north of Mexico, vol. 9
 Crataegus crus-galli var. pyracanthifolia

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

INCLUDING Britton & Brown Illus Flora of Northeast US & adjacent Canada (Gleason, 1952)
 Crataegus crus-galli var. pyracanthifolia

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

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

 

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2815

Shrub; Tree
Perennial

Habitat: Bottomland forests, swamp borders, lowlands, sometimes locally abundant, per Weakley's Flora

Native to the Carolinas & Georgia

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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 short, partially winged (unwinged portion 2-5mm), eglandular

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

Inflorescences of 5-20 flowers

FRUIT:
Fall
Pome

 

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