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

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



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

Crataegus brittonii

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

Crataegus uniflora var. brittonii

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

Crataegus brittonii

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

Crataegus brittonii

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

Crataegus rhodella

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

Crataegus uniflora

 

COMMON NAME:
Britton's Hawthorn


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image of Crataegus brittonii, Britton's Hawthorn

Ron Lance    rwlcuniflora_2

September        SC

Allied closely to C. uniflora.... Leaf shape often ovate to elliptic, per Weakley's Flora (2020).

 

 

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

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

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

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

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

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

INCLUDING & INCLUDED WITHIN Beadle in Flora of the Southeastern US (Small, 1913)
Crataegus uniflora

 

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3868

Shrub
Perennial

Habitat: Thinly forested hills and slopes, bluffs, rock outcrops, disturbed lands, roadsides, streamsides, per Weakley's Flora

Native to the Carolinas & Georgia

Uncommon (rare in GA Piedmont)

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IS THE PLANT "ARMED"?
Armed with very slender nodal thorns (> 3cm long, about 1mm in diameter)

LEAVES:
Deciduous
Simple
Alternate
Petioles 2-5mm, usually pubescent, sometimes black-glandular, esp in spring

FLOWER:
Spring
White
Radially symmetrical
5-lobed calyx
5 petals
Usually 20 stamens (anthers white, yellow or rarely pink)
Inferior ovary
Bisexual

Inflorescences of 1-6 flowers, usually 1

FRUIT:
Summer/Fall
Green, yellow or red
Pome

 

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