Scientific name: Crataegus vulsa Beadle

Common name: Alabama Hawthorn

Family: Rosaceae; Rose

Flowering period: April

Fruiting period: September- October

Habitat: flatwoods, banks of the streams, Floyd Co., Georgia, northeastern Alabama

Type locality: Gadsden, Alabama

Herbarium specimens: US No: 00969388 Barcode: 00097840 , Collections at National Herbarium (US), Washington, DC

Description: "A tree 4-6 m high, with trunk 1-2 dm in diameter clothed with grey or browinish fissured bark. Leaf-blades ovate, oval or rounded-oval 1.5-7 cm long, 1-6 cm broad, glabrous or with a few hairs along the veins and in the axils, sharply and irregularly serrate and incised, acute at the apex, either rounded or abruptly narrowed at the base into margined petioles: corymbs glabrous, compound 3-10 flowered: pedicels, hypanthium and exterior surface of the nearly or quite entire sepals glabrous: corolla about 15 mm wide: stamens normally 20, the anthers pale yellow or red: fruit globose, 7-9 mm in diameter, at maturity yellow-green flushed with red: nutlets 3-5, about 5,5 mm long." - Chauncey D. Beadle, 1903.

Last updated on April 17, 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: 540.
2. U.S. National Herbarium, Department of Botany, National Museum of Natural History ( http://www.nmnh.si.edu/botany/), Smithsonian National Museum of Natural History, 10th Street and Constitution Ave., NW, Washington, D.C.20560

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