Crataegus marshallii Egglest., Parsley Hawthorn, in the Flatwoods at the Berry College Campus, Mt. Berry, Floyd County, Georgia on April 02, 2007.

	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 Co., Georgia on November 8, 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

Last updated on November 29, 2007.

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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