Crataegus berberifolia |
Crataegus prona |
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barberry hawthorn, barberry-leaf hawthorn |
Illinois hawthorn |
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Habit | Shrubs or trees, 60 dm. | Shrubs or trees, 60 dm. | ||||
Stems | twigs: new growth orange-brown or green tinged with red, ± pubescent, 1-year old brown, older gray; thorns on twigs ± straight or recurved, 2-years old shiny black to chestnut brown, fine or stouter, (2–)3–4(–6.5) cm. |
twigs: new growth reddish green, glabrous, 1-year old reddish brown, sometimes very dark, older mid gray; thorns on twigs recurved, 2-years old dark blackish red, ± shiny, ± slender, 3–5 cm. |
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Leaves | petiole 4–6 mm, length 13–18% blade, glabrescent, eglandular; blade narrowly obovate to oblanceolate, (2.5–)3(–4) cm, coriaceous, base narrowly cuneate, lobes 0, margins finely crenate or serrate except at base, or only beyond widest part, venation craspedodromous, veins 4–6 per side, apex subacute to obtuse, lustrous, abaxial surface ± densely pilose on veins, sometimes pubescent on surface, adaxial hairy young, glabrescent or becoming scabrous. |
petiole 2–4 cm, glabrous, eglandular or sparsely glandular; blade deltate-ovate to ovate, 4–7 cm length/width = 1.1–1.2, subcoriaceous, base broadly rounded to ± cuneate, lobes 3–5 per side, sinuses usually shallow, lobe apex acute, margins strongly serrate, veins 5 or 6 per side, apex acute to acuminate, surfaces glabrous except adaxial appressed-hairy young. |
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Inflorescences | 8–12-flowered; branches densely pubescent; bracteoles linear, margins glandular. |
5–12-flowered; branches glabrous; bracteoles few, margins glandular. |
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Flowers | 10–20 mm diam.; hypanthium villous or glabrous; sepals 3–5 mm, margins entire, abaxially glabrous; stamens 10 or 20, anthers cream or pink; styles 2 or 3. |
16–18 mm diam.; hypanthium glabrous; sepals narrowly triangular, 5–6 mm, margins subentire, abaxially glabrous; stamens 6–10, anthers red to purple; styles 3 or 4. |
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Pomes | reddish to yellow, suborbicular, 8–10 mm diam., glabrous; sepals erose or patent; pyrenes 2 or 3. |
reddish orange to bright red, suborbicular to oblong, 8–11 mm diam.; sepals patent-reflexed or commonly erose; pyrenes 3 or 4, dorsally grooved. |
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Crataegus berberifolia |
Crataegus prona |
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Phenology | Flowering May; fruiting Sep–Oct. | |||||
Habitat | Brush | |||||
Elevation | 100–300 m (300–1000 ft) | |||||
Distribution |
AL; AR; FL; GA; KS; LA; MO; MS; NC; SC; TN
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IN; MI; NY; PA; WI; ON |
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Discussion | Varieties 2 (2 in the flora). Crataegus berberifolia is widespread from Texas to Missouri, Florida, and Virginia; it is particularly abundant in Louisiana. Crataegus berberifolia is little differentiated from some forms of C. crus-galli, except in indumentum; it has relatively small and less variably shaped leaves. Its distribution is quite different. Intermediates with hairy leaves and glabrous inflorescences or nearly glabrous leaves and hairy inflorescences may represent hybrids with C. crus-galli (where they might be reached in the key). Such a situation is found in C. araioclada. Abrasion of the adaxial leaf pubescence may occur, rendering identification more difficult with fruiting material. Crataegus berberifolia has a plethora of yellow and orange-fruited forms, particularly from southern Louisiana. Crataegus fera and C. tersa are red-fruited, C. crocina yellow. The fruit color in the type is unknown; E. J. Palmer (in specimen annotation) called it yellow-orange. A form with exceptionally white-tomentose leaves near Copenhagen, Louisiana, is probably this species. Crataegus regalis var. paradoxa (Sargent) E. J. Palmer, from Missouri and adjacent Kansas and Arkansas, is probably a hybrid between the deeply serrated 'regalis' leaf form of C. crus-galli and a form of C. berberifolia. Two common forms of C. berberifolia occur, treated here as varieties: var. engelmannii with ten pink anthers and var. berberifolia with 20 cream anthers. Forms with 20 pink or ten cream anthers also occur sporadically. (Discussion copyrighted by Flora of North America; reprinted with permission.) |
Crataegus prona ranges from Wisconsin and Indiana through Michigan to New York and Pennsylvania. Crataegus prona is similar to C. populnea but with proportionately wider leaves and narrow pomes. When better known, it may prove the same as C. populnea. Crataegus gravis is a form with more oblong fruit and smaller leaves with sharper lobes. (Discussion copyrighted by Flora of North America; reprinted with permission.) |
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Key |
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Source | FNA vol. 9, p. 540. | FNA vol. 9, p. 570. | ||||
Parent taxa | Rosaceae > subfam. Amygdaloideae > tribe Maleae > Crataegus > sect. Coccineae > ser. Crus-galli | Rosaceae > subfam. Amygdaloideae > tribe Maleae > Crataegus > sect. Coccineae > ser. Populneae | ||||
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Synonyms | C. gravis | |||||
Name authority | Torrey & A. Gray: Fl. N. Amer. 1: 469. (1840) | Ashe: J. Elisha Mitchell Sci. Soc. 19: 17. (1903) | ||||
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