Crataegus crus-galli L, Cockspur Hawthorn, in the Flatwoods at the Berry College Campus, Mt. Berry, Floyd County, Northwest Georgia, Southestern United States ( November 12, 2007.)

	Scientific name: Crataegus crus-galli L. Synonym(s):Crataegus mohrii Beadle, Crataegus regalis Beadle Common name: Cockspur Hawthorn Family: Rosacae; Rose Origin: Native Flowering period: April Fruiting period: September- October Habitat: flatwoods, open woods, dry and rocky places

Description: "A tree 6-8 m. high, with wide-spreading branches, thorny flexous branchlets and dark slightly scaly bark; leaves of flowering branchlets mostly obovate sharply serrate except towards the cuneate base, at maturity thick, shining above; shoot -leaves often oblong-elliptic, sometimes twice as large and coarsely serrate or dentate; flowers 1-1.5 cm. wide, many in glabrous corymbs; stamens about 10, anthers pink or pale yellow; calyx-lobes linear-lanceolate, entire or nearly so; fruit short-oblong, slightly obovoid or rarely subglobose, 0.8-1 cm. thick, often slightly 5-angled, greenish or dull red, with thin dry flesh and 1-3, usually 1-2, nutlets."- Ernest J. Palmer

Last updated on November 29, 2007.

References :
1. Palmer, Ernest J., in Fernald, Merritt L., Gray's Manual of Botany 8.ed. New York: D.Van Nostrand Company, 1970: 775
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.

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