OF THE CAROLINAS & GEORGIA

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

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



(?) INCLUDED WITHIN PLANTS NATIONAL DATABASE:
Crataegus pruinosa   FAMILY Rosaceae

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

Crataegus gattingeri

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

Crataegus pruinosa var. gattingeri

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 gattingeri var. gattingeri

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

Crataegus gattingeri var. rigida

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

Crataegus georgiana

 

COMMON NAME:
Gattinger's Hawthorn


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image of Crataegus pruinosa var. gattingeri, Gattinger's Hawthorn

Manual of the Trees of North America (Exclusive of Mexico) (Sargent, 1905)    mtna_i_483

        

Cratægus georgiana

image of Crataegus pruinosa var. gattingeri, Gattinger's Hawthorn

USDA-NRCS PLANTS Database / Britton, N.L., and A. Brown. 1913    pnd_crga4_001_lvd

        

image of Crataegus pruinosa var. gattingeri, Gattinger's Hawthorn

Ron Lance    rwlcpruinosa_vgattinge1

April        GA

The leaves' elongate terminal lobe resembles the northerly C. compacta, per Weakley's Flora (2020).

image of Crataegus pruinosa var. gattingeri, Gattinger's Hawthorn

Ron Lance    rwlcpruinosa_vgattinge1b

April        GA

Anthers smaller than those of the typical variety of C. pruinosa, per Haws: A Guide to Hawthorns of the Southeastern US (Lance, 2014).

image of Crataegus pruinosa var. gattingeri, Gattinger's Hawthorn

Ron Lance    rwlcpruinosa_vgattinger2

September        GA

Fruit globose, red, per Haws: A Guide to Hawthorns of the Southeastern US (Lance, 2014).

 

 

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

(?) INCLUDED WITHIN PLANTS NATIONAL DATABASE:
Crataegus pruinosa   FAMILY Rosaceae

SYNONYMOUS WITH Flora of North America north of Mexico, vol. 9
Crataegus gattingeri

INCLUDING Haws: A Guide to Hawthorns of the Southeastern US (Lance, 2014)
Crataegus pruinosa var. gattingeri

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 gattingeri var. gattingeri

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

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

 

Find by SCIENTIFIC NAME:

3867

Tree
Perennial

Habitat: Hardwood and pine-hardwood woodlands, brush, pastures, per Weakley's Flora

Native to the Carolinas & Georgia

Uncommon (rare in Carolina Coastal Plain)

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 to equal blade length, eglandular, or remotely glandular in spring

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

Inflorescences of 5-12 flowers

FRUIT:
Summer/Fall
Red
Pome

 

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