Crataegus spathulata Michx., Littlehip Hawthorn, Flatwoods at the Berry College Campus, Mt. Berry, Floyd County, Georgia; ( March 31, 2007.)	November 18, 2007.

Scientific name: Crataegus spathulata Michx. Common name: Littlehip Hawthorn Family: Rosacae; Rose Origin: Native Flowering records: March 31, 2007 in the Flatwoods of the Berry College Campus, Mt. Berry, Floyd Co., Georgia Fruiting period: September- October Habitat: flatwoods, open woods, rocky places Description: "A shrub or small tree, sometimes 6-8 m tall, with gray or brown smooth or minutely, scaly bark and usually several stems. Leaf-blades spatulate or oblanceolate, 1-4 cm, long, 5-20 mm wide, narrowed into winged petioles obtuse or subacute at the apex, the borders crenate or crenate-serrate and frequently incisely 2-3 lobed, glabrous or very nearly so, shining above: corymbs compound, many flowered, glabrous: pedicels, hypanthium and short triangular sepals glabrous: corolla 7-10 mm broad: stamens about 20: fruit glabose, red at maturity, 4-6 mm in diameter: nutlets 3-5, the hypostyle upwardly and dorsally extended over the apex." - Chauncey D. Beadle, 1903.

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: 538.
2. Images by Zvezdana Ukropina-Crawford
3. USDA, NRCS. 2006. The PLANTS Database, 6 March 2006 (http://plants.usda.gov). National Plant Data Center, Baton Rouge, LA 70874-4490 USA.

Last updated on November 28, 2007.

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