Spermatophytes (seed plants): Angiosperms (flowering plants): Eudicots: Core Eudicots: Rosids: Fabids: Rosales
Series: Pulcherrimae
WEAKLEY'S FLORA OF THE SOUTHEASTERN US (10/20/20):
Crataegus mendosa
FAMILY
Rosaceae
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SYNONYMOUS WITH
PLANTS NATIONAL DATABASE:
Crataegus mendosa
FAMILY
Rosaceae
SYNONYMOUS WITH Flora of North America north of Mexico, vol. 9 (2014)
Crataegus mendosa
SYNONYMOUS WITH Haws: A Guide to Hawthorns of the Southeastern US (Lance, 2014)
Crataegus mendosa
SYNONYMOUS WITH Manual of the Southeastern Flora (Small, 1933, 1938)
Crataegus mendosa
SYNONYMOUS WITH Beadle in Flora of the Southeastern US (Small, 1913)
Crataegus mendosa
COMMON NAME:
Albertville Hawthorn
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Ron Lance rwlc_mendosa
April McCormick County SC
Lvs narrower than C. pulcherrima, with little lobing & blunt-pointed apices. — Ron Lance
WEAKLEY'S FLORA OF THE SOUTHEASTERN US (10/20/20):
Crataegus mendosa
FAMILY
Rosaceae
SYNONYMOUS WITH
PLANTS NATIONAL DATABASE:
Crataegus mendosa
FAMILY
Rosaceae
SYNONYMOUS WITH
Flora of North America north of Mexico, vol. 9
Crataegus mendosa
SYNONYMOUS WITH
Haws: A Guide to Hawthorns of the Southeastern US (Lance, 2014)
Crataegus mendosa
SYNONYMOUS WITH
Manual of the Southeastern Flora (Small, 1933, 1938)
Crataegus mendosa
SYNONYMOUS WITH
Beadle in Flora of the Southeastern US (Small, 1913)
Crataegus mendosa
2768
Shrub
Perennial
Habitat: Mesic hardwood forests, mixed pine-hardwood forests, upland wooded hills over calcareous substrates and well-drained clays, per Weakley's Flora
Native to South Carolina & Georgia
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IS THE PLANT "ARMED"?
Armed with slender to moderately stout nodal thorns > 2cm long
LEAVES:
Deciduous
Simple
Alternate
Petioles 1/3-2/3 blade length, ~ partially winged, red sessile glands in spring
FLOWER:
Spring
White
Radially symmetrical
5-lobed calyx
5 petals
20 stamens (anthers pink or purplish)
Inferior ovary
Bisexual
Inflorescences of 4-12 flowers
FRUIT:
Summer/Fall
Green, yellow or red
Pome
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