Scientific name: Crataegus punctata Jacq. Synonym: Crataegus collina Chapman Family: Rosaceae; Rose Flowering period: April- May Fruiting period: September-October Habitat: hillsides, rocky soil Illustrations: USDA-NRCS PLANTS Database / Britton, N.L., and A. Brown. 1913. Illustrated flora of the northern states and Canada. Vol. 2: 300-301.
Crataegus punctata Jacq.	Crataegus collina Chapman, an apomictic segregate

Herbarium specimen: Lectotype specimen of Crataegus collina Chapman from Rome, Georgia, 1882; Collections at Cambridge, MA, New York, NY, and Washington, DC

Comments: In April 2005 Ron W. Lance, a hawthorn specialist from North Carolina identified some flowering specimens of Crataegus collina Chapman in the Flatwoods and on the Lavender Mountain, at the Berry College Campus, Mt. Berry Georgia. In the fall the fruits were not collected.

Description: "A tree occasionally 9 m tall, with dark gray or reddish brown scaly bark or oftener a large shrub with spreading branches. Leaf-blades obovate, 3-7 c, long, 1.5-5 cm broad, either obtuse or pointed at the apex, cuneate or more abruptly contracted at the base, irregularly and usually doubly serrate and incised, when fully grown glabrous on the upper surface, the prominent midrib and ascending veins deeply impressed, pubescent below: corymbs compound, many-flowered, pilose-pubescent: corrola about 2 cm wide: stamens 20, the anthers purplish: fruit subglobose or oval, 1-2 cm broad, red or yellow when ripe: nutlets 2-3, about 7-9 mm long, the hypostyle about 5mm long." - Chauncey D. Beadle, 1903.

Last updated on January 2, 2011.

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: 541.
2. Harvard University Herbaria (http://www.huh.harvard.edu/ ). Cambridge, 22 Divinity Avenue, Massachusetts 02138, USA
3. 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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