Scientific name: Crataegus berberifolia Torr. & Gray Common name: Barberry Hawthorn Synonyms:Crataegus tersa Beadle; Crataegus torva Beadle Family: Rosaceae; Rose Flowering period: end of March-early April Fruiting period: early October Habitat: woods Herbarium specimens: NCU ID 029692 , Collections at University of North Carolina Herbarium, Chapel Hill, NC Illustration:USDA-NRCS PLANTS Database / Britton, N.L., and A. Brown. 1913. Illustrated flora of the northern states and Canada. Vol. 2: 297.

Description: ""A tree, sometimes attaining a height of 8 m , with dark gray scaly bark. Leaf-blades oblong-cuneiform or spatulate, 2-6 cm long, 1-2.5 cm wide, or on leading shoots obovate-cuneate and frequently 3.5 cm wide, at maturity dark green or scabrous or eventually smooth above, pale or even whitened and pubescent beneath, especially along the midrib and principal veins, rounded or obtuse at the apex, gradually or sometimes abruptly contracted at the base, the Borders serrate above the middle; petioles 2-12 mm long, pubescent, at least when young: corymbs compound or sub-simple, ample, densely hirsute: pedicles and hypanthium hirsute-pubescent: sepals 3.5-5 mm long, serrate or entire: corolla 10-15 mm wide: stamens 16-20, the anthers yellow : fruit subglobose, 10-13 mm thick, at maturity yellow or orange with flushed cheeks: nutlets mostly 2-3, about 7 mm long, the hypostyle about 5 mm long." - Chauncey D. Beadle, 1903.
C. edura Beadle: fruit less than 1 cm in diameter
C. tersa Beadle: stamens 18-20; anthers pale rose

Last updated on November 11, 2007.

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: 565.
Sargent, Charles S. Manual of the Trees of North America (Exclusive of Mexico) Vol.I New York: Dover Publications, Inc. 1965: 418-420.
2. University of North Carolina Herbarium:(http://www.herbarium.unc.edu/), University of North Carolina Herbarium, University of North Carolina Chapel Hill, NC 27599-3280
3. USDA-NRCS PLANTS Database / Britton, N.L., and A. Brown. 1913. Illustrated flora of the northern states and Canada. Vol. 2: 297.
4. USDA, NRCS. 2005. The PLANTS National Database, Version 3.5 (http://plants.usda.gov). National Plant Data Center, Baton Rouge, LA 70874-4490 USA.

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