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
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Dig deeper at SERNEC, a consortium of southeastern herbaria.
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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Manual of the Trees of North America (Exclusive of Mexico) (Sargent, 1905) mtna_i_506
Cratægus canadensis
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Manual of the Trees of North America (Exclusive of Mexico) (Sargent, 1905) mtna_i_513
Cratægus arnoldiana
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Manual of the Trees of North America (Exclusive of Mexico) (Sargent, 1905) mtna_i_516
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USDA-NRCS PLANTS Database / Britton, N.L., and A. Brown. 1913 pnd_crsu2_001_lvd
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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
4484
Shrub; Tree
Perennial
Habitat: Scrubland, field margins, usually on calcareous substrates, per Weakley's Flora
Native: north & northwest of the Carolinas & Georgia
CLICK HERE to see a map, notes, and images from Weakley's Flora of the Southeastern US.
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
TO LEARN MORE about this plant, look it up in a good book!
- Haws: A Guide to Hawthorns of the Southeastern US (Lance, 2014) p136
- Landscaping with Native Trees (Sternberg & Wilson, 1995) p100
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