OF THE CAROLINAS & GEORGIA

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

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



SYNONYMOUS WITH PLANTS NATIONAL DATABASE:
Crataegus submollis   FAMILY Rosaceae

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

Crataegus submollis

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

Crataegus submollis

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

Crataegus submollis

INCLUDING Gray's Manual of Botany (Fernald, 1950)

Crataegus arnoldiana

INCLUDING Gray's Manual of Botany (Fernald, 1950)

Crataegus canadensis

INCLUDING Gray's Manual of Botany (Fernald, 1950)

Crataegus submollis

 

COMMON NAME:
Northern Downy Hawthorn, Quebec Hawthorn


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image of Crataegus submollis, Northern Downy Hawthorn, Quebec Hawthorn

Manual of the Trees of North America (Exclusive of Mexico) (Sargent, 1905)    mtna_i_506

        

Cratægus canadensis

image of Crataegus submollis, Northern Downy Hawthorn, Quebec Hawthorn

Manual of the Trees of North America (Exclusive of Mexico) (Sargent, 1905)    mtna_i_513

        

Cratægus arnoldiana

image of Crataegus submollis, Northern Downy Hawthorn, Quebec Hawthorn

Manual of the Trees of North America (Exclusive of Mexico) (Sargent, 1905)    mtna_i_516

        

image of Crataegus submollis, Northern Downy Hawthorn, Quebec Hawthorn

USDA-NRCS PLANTS Database / Britton, N.L., and A. Brown. 1913    pnd_crsu2_001_lvd

        

image of Crataegus submollis, Northern Downy Hawthorn, Quebec Hawthorn

Sam Pratt    sbp_093021_1015

September    Spartanburg County    SC

in cultivation

The entity named C. arnoldiana was a form of submollis w large crimson fruit to 2cm in diameter, per Haws: A Guide to Hawthorns of the Southeastern US (Lance, 2014).

 

 

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

SYNONYMOUS WITH PLANTS NATIONAL DATABASE:
Crataegus submollis   FAMILY Rosaceae

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

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

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

INCLUDING Gray's Manual of Botany (Fernald, 1950)
Crataegus arnoldiana

INCLUDING Gray's Manual of Botany (Fernald, 1950)
Crataegus canadensis

INCLUDING Gray's Manual of Botany (Fernald, 1950)
Crataegus submollis

 

Find by SCIENTIFIC NAME:

4484

Shrub; Tree
Perennial

Habitat: Scrubland, field margins, usually on calcareous substrates, per Weakley's Flora

Native: north & northwest of the Carolinas & Georgia

map
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IS THE PLANT "ARMED"?
Armed with moderately stout nodal thorns (> 2cm long, 1.5-3mm in diameter)

LEAVES:
Deciduous
Simple
Alternate
Petioles glandular

FLOWER:
Spring/Summer
White
Radially symmetrical
5-lobed calyx
5 petals
5-10 stamens (anthers white or yellow)
Inferior ovary
Bisexual

FRUIT:
Summer/Fall
Pome

 

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