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

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



SYNONYMOUS WITH PLANTS NATIONAL DATABASE:
Pyracantha fortuneana   FAMILY Rosaceae

INCLUDED WITHIN Floristic Synthesis of North America. BONAP (Kartesz, 2021)

Pyracantha crenulata

SYNONYMOUS WITH Floristic Synthesis of North America. BONAP (Kartesz, 2015)

Pyracantha fortuneana

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

Pyracantha fortuneana

 

COMMON NAME:
Chinese Firethorn


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

SYNONYMOUS WITH PLANTS NATIONAL DATABASE:
Pyracantha fortuneana   FAMILY Rosaceae

INCLUDED WITHIN Floristic Synthesis of North America. BONAP (Kartesz, 2021)
Pyracantha crenulata

SYNONYMOUS WITH Floristic Synthesis of North America. BONAP (Kartesz, 2015)
Pyracantha fortuneana

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

 

Find by SCIENTIFIC NAME:

4315

Shrub
Perennial

Habitat: Fencerows, invading disturbed calcareous prairies, spreading from horticultural use, per Weakley's Flora

Non-native: China

Waif(s)

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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/Summer
Whitish
Radially symmetrical
5 united sepals
5 petals
Bisexual

FRUIT:
Fall
Red
Berry-like pome

 

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