Scientific name:Crataegus marshallii Egglest. Common name: Parsley Hawthorn Family: Rosacae; Rose Origin: Native Flowering records: April 23, 2005. and March 31, 2007. in the Flatwoods of the Berry College Campus Fruiting period: September- October Habitat: flatwoods, open woods, low hills, along streams
Crataegus marshallii Egglest., Parsley Hawthorn, in the Flatwoods at the Berry College Campus, Mt. Berry, Floyd County, Georgia on April 02, 2007.

Description : Crataegus marshallii Egglest. "(for Humphrey Marshall, 1722-1801, who first described it),-A shrub or small tree 6-8 m high, with slender thorny or sometimes thornless branchletes pubescent while young and thin scaly bark; leaves broadly ovate or deltoid-ovate, sharply serrate and deeply incised with 2-3 pairs of lateral lobes often coarsely toothed or again cleft at the ends, pubescent while young; at maturity thin, glabrous above, often slightly pubescent along the veins beneath; petioles slender, half to as long as or longer than the blades; flowers 1-1.5 cm wide, many in pubescent corymbs; stamens about 10; anthers red; calyx-lobes lanceolate, entire or nearly so; fruit oblong or obovoid , 5-9 mm long, 4-8 mm thick, bright red, with thin succulent flesh and 1-3 (usually 2) nutlets. – Open woods and low hills, usually along streams…...."- Ernest J. Palmer

Crataegus marshallii Egglest., Parsley Hawthorn in the Flatwoods at the Berry College Campus, Mt. Berry, Floyd Co., Georgia on November 8, 2007.

Last updated on April 16, 2011.

References :
1. Palmer, Ernest J., in Fernald, Merritt L., Gray's Manual of Botany 8.ed. New York: D.Van Nostrand Company, 1970: (770)
2. Illustration: USDA-NRCS PLANTS Database / Britton, N.L., and A. Brown. 1913. Illustrated flora of the northern states and Canada. Vol. 2: 320.
3. Image by Zvezdana Ukropina-Crawford
4. USDA, NRCS. 2006. The PLANTS Database, 6 March 2006 (http://plants.usda.gov). National Plant Data Center, Baton Rouge, LA 70874-4490 USA.

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