Scientific name: Crataegus viridis L. Common name: Green Hawthorn Family: Rosaceae; Rose Flowered records: April 23, 2005. and April 01, 2007. in the the Flatwoods of the Berry College Campus, Mt. Berry, Georgia Fruiting period: September-October Habitat: Low wet or alluvial woods

Description: " A tree sometimes 10-12 m high, with slender unarmed or sometimes thorny branchlets and thin scaly pale gray bark over orange-brown inner bark; leaves variable and often asymmetrical, thin, glabrous at maturity except for tufts of tomentum in the axils of the veins beneath , on flowering branchlets mostly rhombic or oblong-elliptic, finely serrate and sharply lobed or deeply cut toward the base; petioles slender, 1.2-5 cm long; flowers 1.2-1.3 cm wide, many glabrous corymbs; stamens about 20; anthers small, pale yellow or rarely red; fruit subglobose, 5-8 mm thick, red or orange-red, with thin juicy flesh and usually 5 nutlets." - Ernest Jesse Palmer, 1950 Crataegus viridis L., Green Hawthorn in the Flatwoods at the Berry College Campus, Mt. Berry, Floyd County Northwest Georgia, Southeastern United States. (March 31, and May 15, 2007.)

Last updated on April 17, 2011.

References :
1. Palmer, Ernest J., in Fernald, Merritt L., Gray's Manual of Botany 8.ed. New York: D.Van Nostrand Company, 1970: 773
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.