Scientific name: Crataegus harbisonii Beadle
Synonym: Crataegus ashei Beadle
Common name: Harbison's hawthorn
Family: Rosaceae; Rose
Flowering period: early May
Fruiting period: late September-October;
Habitat: on limestone hills and ridges
Type locality: near Nashville, Tennessee
Herbarium specimens: NCU ID 077455, Collections at University of North Carolina Herbarium, Chapel Hill, NC

Description: "A tree 5-8 m tall, with ashy gray or brownish black bark. Leaf-blades obovate, oval or broadly ovate, 2.5-10 cm wide, pubescent, acute at the apex, narrowed, contracted or rounded at the base, the borders serrate and incised; petioles 6 mm -2 cm long, margined, glandular, pubescent: corymbs broad, pubescent or pilose, compound; pedicles and hypanthium pilose-pubescent: sepals lanceolate, 4-6 mm long, serrate, glandular: corolla about 2 cm wide: stamens 20, the anthers light yellow: fruit globose, 10-13 mm in diameter, red at maturity: nutlets 3-5, about 8 mm long, 4-5 mm deep, the hypostyle 5-6 mm long." - Chauncey D. Beadle, 1903.

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: 563.
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

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