Scientific name: Crataegus austromontana Beadle
Common name: Valley Head Hawthorn
Family: Rosaceae; Rose
Flowering period: early May
Fruiting period: late September;
Habitat: banks of the rivers and rocky woods

Type locality: Valley Head, DeKalb County, Alabama
Herbarium specimens: NCU ID 081714 , Collections at University of North Carolina Herbarium, Chapel Hill, NC

Description: "A straggling shrub 1-4 m tall. Leaf-blades broadly oval or round-ovate, 3-9 cm long, 2.5-7.5 cm wide, pubescent, acute at the apex, contracted, rounded or truncate at base, the borders serrate and often with short, acute lobes; petioles 1-4 cm long, margined, glandular, pubescent: Corymbs simple, 2-5 (mostly 3-) flowered: pedicles and hypanthium hirsute-pubescent: sepals 6-10 mm long, serrate, glandular, pubescent: corolla 2.5 cm wide: stamens 10, the anthers light-yellow: fruit globose, 12-15 mm in diameter, bright red at maturity, pubescent, the flesh soft: nutlets 3-5, 8-10 mm long, 405 mm deep, the hypostyle about 5 mm long." - Chauncey D. Beadle, 1903.
"The new species is closely associated with C. triflora Chapm., but may be recognized by its smaller size, broader leaves, fewer stamens, and by the larger and coarser seed."- Chauncey D. Beadle, 1899.

Last updated on November 11, 2007.

References :
1. Beadle, Chauncey D. in Small, John K. Flora of the southeastern United States; being descriptions of the seed plants, ferns and fern-allies growing naturally in North Carolina, South Carolina, Georgia, Florida, Tennessee, Alabama, Mississippi, Arkansas, Louisiana and the Indian territory and in Oklahoma and Texas east of the one-hundredth meridian. New York: 1903: 563.
Beadle, Chauncey D. "Studies in Crataegus. I." Botanical Gazzette 28 (1899): 412-413.
2. University of North Carolina Herbarium:(http://www.herbarium.unc.edu/), University of North Carolina Herbarium, University of North Carolina Chapel Hill, NC 27599-3280

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