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Crataegus uniflora Muenchh.
Common name: Dwarf Hawthorn, One-flowered Hawthorn
Family: Rosacae; Rose
Origin: Native
Flowering period: April- May
Fruiting period: September- October
Habitat: Sandy or rocky banks and woods

Description:- "Shrub 0.5-3 m tall with spines 1-6 cm long. Young branches hirsute. Leaves elliptic, obovate or ovate, often lobulate toward apex, 1-6 cm long, 0.7-3.2 cm wide, pubescent, often glabrate above, acute to obtuse, simply or doubly crenate or serrate, with gland-tipped teeth, base cuneate; petioles 0-5 mm long. Flowers solitary or in 3-flowered cymes; pedicels pubescent, 1-20 mm long. Sepals elliptic to lanceolate, 4-7 mm long, 1.5 -4 mm wide coarsely glandular-serrate; stamens 15-20. Pome reddish to brownish, subglobose, 7-9 mm in diam.; pyrenes 5. April-May; Aug.-Oct: Thickets and woodlands, usually xeric; throughout [Va., Ga., Fla., Ala., Miss.]."- Albert E. Redford, 1968:(560)

Last updated on April 15, 2011.

References :

1. Redford, Albert E. Ahles, Harry E. and C. Ritchie Bell. Manual of the Vascular Flora of the Carolinas Chapell Hill: U of North Carolina Press. 1968
2. USDA, NRCS. 2006. The PLANTS Database, 6 March 2006 (http://plants.usda.gov). National Plant Data Center, Baton Rouge, LA 70874-4490 USA.
3. Images by Zvezdana Ukropina-Crawford

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