Spermatophytes (seed plants): Angiosperms (flowering plants): Eudicots: Core Eudicots: Rosids: Fabids: Rosales
Series: _Interserial hybrid
WEAKLEY'S FLORA OF THE SOUTHEASTERN US (4/24/22):
Crataegus ×canescens
FAMILY
Rosaceae
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SYNONYMOUS WITH
PLANTS NATIONAL DATABASE:
Mespilus canescens
FAMILY
Rosaceae
SYNONYMOUS WITH Studies in Mespilus, Crataegus, and ×Crataegomespilus (Rosaceae) (Phipps, 2016)
×Crataemespilus canescens
SYNONYMOUS WITH Floristic Synthesis of North America. BONAP (Kartesz, 2015)
Crataegus ×canescens
SYNONYMOUS WITH Flora of North America north of Mexico, vol. 9 (2014)
Mespilus canescens
SYNONYMOUS WITH Haws: A Guide to Hawthorns of the Southeastern US (Lance, 2014)
Crataegus ×canescens
COMMON NAME:
Stern's Medlar, Stearn's Medlar
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WEAKLEY'S FLORA OF THE SOUTHEASTERN US (4/24/22):
Crataegus ×canescens
FAMILY
Rosaceae
SYNONYMOUS WITH
PLANTS NATIONAL DATABASE:
Mespilus canescens
FAMILY
Rosaceae
SYNONYMOUS WITH
Studies in Mespilus, Crataegus, and ×Crataegomespilus (Rosaceae) (Phipps, 2016)
×Crataemespilus canescens
SYNONYMOUS WITH
Floristic Synthesis of North America. BONAP (Kartesz, 2015)
Crataegus ×canescens
SYNONYMOUS WITH
Flora of North America north of Mexico, vol. 9
Mespilus canescens
SYNONYMOUS WITH
Haws: A Guide to Hawthorns of the Southeastern US (Lance, 2014)
Crataegus ×canescens
4310
Shrub; Tree
Perennial
Habitat: woodlands in the Grand Prairie, per Weakley's Flora
Native to Arkansas
CLICK HERE to see a map, notes, and images from Weakley's Flora of the Southeastern US.
IS THE PLANT "ARMED"?
Armed with nodal thorns
LEAVES:
Deciduous
Simple
Alternate
Leaf blades elliptic or oblanceolate, unlobed except on terminal shoots
Margins finely and remotely toothed beyond the middle
FLOWER:
Spring
White
Radially symmetrical
5-lobed calyx
5 petals
20 stamens (anthers yellow)
Bisexual
FRUIT:
Summer/Fall
Red
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) p457
- Woody Plants of the Southeastern US: A Winter Guide (Lance, 2004) p214
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