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