Crataegus castlegarensis |
Crataegus scabrida |
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Castlegar hawthorn, Castlegar hawthorne, hawthorn |
aubépine scabride, rough hawthorn, scabrous hawthorn |
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Habit | Shrubs, 25–50 dm. | Shrubs, 30–50 dm. | ||||||||||||
Stems | erect; branches spreading; 1-year old twigs brown; thorns on twigs usually branched, some paired or in triads, straight to slightly recurved, dark brown with blackish tip young, 2–3 cm. |
twigs: new growth reddish early, glabrous, 1-year old deep tan, 2-years old tan to deep reddish brown, older dull gray; thorns on twigs at 1-year old shiny, dark brown to nearly black, stout or slender, 4–6 cm. |
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Leaves | petiole 0.7–1.5 cm, pubescent, eglandular; blade oblanceolate to ovate-rhombic, 3.5–6 cm, lobes 3 or 4 per side, sinuses shallow to deep, lobe apex usually acute, margins serrate, teeth apices finally glandular young, venation craspedodromous, veins 4 or 5 per side, apex broadly triangular, abaxial surface sparsely hairy or glabrous except on veins, adaxial conspicuously appressed-pubescent young, glabrescent except on midvein. |
petiole slender, length 40–60% blade, sparsely pubescent or glabrous, eglandular or sessile-glandular; blade short-ovate to ovate, broadly elliptic to narrowly rhombic, or ± trullate, 3–8 cm, base rounded to cuneate, lobes 3–5 per side, margins serrate, veins 5–7(or 8) per side, apex acute, abaxial surface glabrous, adaxial sparsely to densely appressed-pubescent young, glabrescent. |
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Inflorescences | 12–20-flowered; branches sparsely to densely pubescent; bracteole margins stipitate-glandular. |
6–10-flowered; branches glabrous or villous. |
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Flowers | 12 mm diam.; hypanthium pubescent or glabrous; sepals triangular, 3 mm, margins remotely glandular-serrate; stamens 10, anthers pink; styles 3 or 4. |
15–18 mm diam.; hypanthium glabrous or pubescent; sepals narrowly triangular, margins subentire or glandular-serrate; stamens 7 or 8(–10), anthers pink; styles 3 or 4. |
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Pomes | crimson (mid Aug) turning to reddish plum or, ultimately, blackish purple, orbicular, ± oblate (recessed at junction with pedicel), 10 mm diam., sparsely pilose; sepals reflexed, apex obtuse; pyrenes 3 or 4, sides usually pitted. |
reddish or orange-red, suborbicular, 6–9 mm diam., pruinose, glabrous or slightly pubescent; sepals spreading to ± erose; pyrenes 2–4, sides often pitted. |
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2n | = 68. |
= 51. |
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Crataegus castlegarensis |
Crataegus scabrida |
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Phenology | Flowering May–Jun; fruiting Sep–Oct. | |||||||||||||
Habitat | Mesic brush | |||||||||||||
Elevation | 300–1200 m (1000–3900 ft) | |||||||||||||
Distribution |
CA; ID; MT; OR; UT; WA; WY; AB; BC; SK
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CT; MA; ME; MI; NH; NY; VA; VT; WI; NB; NS; ON; QC
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Discussion | Crataegus castlegarensis occurs from around the northern Okanagan, British Columbia, to the northern California Coast Ranges, to northwestern Montana, and the Rocky Mountains to northeast of Salt Lake City, Utah. The species occurs also in the Cypress Hills of Alberta and Saskatchewan; it is found in habitats similar to those of C. douglasii and is at least as abundant as that species in a number of parts of its range. Crataegus castlegarensis is readily recognized by a combination of hairy inflorescence branches, pomes more or less orbicular, crimson or burgundy (with irregular earlier ripening) around the third week of August, soon becoming purple, often when nearby C. douglasii is already black, as well as a tendency to possess thorns on the young twigs branched at the base to become double, triple, or even sometimes quadruple. Such multiple thorns, though sometimes abundant on a bush, are more often few and may require searching for. Inflorescence pubescence, as in other species with this characteristic, may become sparse by fruiting. Crataegus castlegarensis is most similar to C. douglasii; its fruit is usually more orbicular, even oblately so, than is normal in that species, sometimes even with a recessed junction to the pedicel like an apple. (Discussion copyrighted by Flora of North America; reprinted with permission.) |
Varieties 4 (4 in the flora). Crataegus scabrida is variable in leaf shape and size, as well as in pubescence of adaxial leaf surfaces and pedicels. The species falls into four reasonably well-marked varieties, only the first two of which are frequent. The range of the species as a whole is somewhat poorly documented because of frequent incorrect identification. (Discussion copyrighted by Flora of North America; reprinted with permission.) |
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Source | FNA vol. 9, p. 513. | FNA vol. 9, p. 523. | ||||||||||||
Parent taxa | Rosaceae > subfam. Amygdaloideae > tribe Maleae > Crataegus > sect. Douglasia > ser. Douglasianae | Rosaceae > subfam. Amygdaloideae > tribe Maleae > Crataegus > sect. Macracanthae > ser. Anomalae | ||||||||||||
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Synonyms | C. brainerdii var. scabrida | |||||||||||||
Name authority | J. B. Phipps & O'Kennon: Sida 20: 121, figs. 3, 4. (2002) | Sargent: Rhodora 3: 29. (1901) | ||||||||||||
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