Scientific name: Crataegus intricata Lange Common name: Copenhagen Hawthorn, Entangled Hawthorn Some synonym(s): Crataegus biltmoreana Beadle, Crataegus boyntonii Beadle, Family: Rosaceae; Rose Flowering period: April Fruiting period: September- October Habitat: thickets and open woods Illustration: Crataegus boyntonii Beadle, an apomictic segregate USDA-NRCS PLANTS Database / Britton, N.L., and A. Brown. 1913. Illustrated flora of the northern states and Canada. Vol. 2: 307.

Comments: Crataegus biltmoreana Beadle, an apomictic segregate was identified in Marshall Forest, Rome Floyd Co., Georgia in 1969.

Description: "An irregularly branched shrub 1-3.5 m high, armed with slender thorns; leaves mostly ovate or oblong-ovate, serrate nearly to base, usually with 3-5 pairs of spreading lateral lobes often deflexed at the points, thin but firm, glabrous at maturity; petioles slender, 2-3 cm long, usually glandular; flowers 1.3-1.7 cm wide, few in glabrous nearly simple corymbs with conspicuous glandular bracts; stamens about 10; anthers white or pale yellow (rarely pink); fruit obovoid, oblong, or rarely subglobose, 0.9-1.3 cm thick, bronze-green or russet with hard dry flesh and 3-5 nutlets." - Ernest Jesse Palmer, 1950

Last updated on November 11, 2007.

References :
1. Palmer, Ernest J., in Fernald, Merritt L., Gray's Manual of Botany 8.ed. New York: D.Van Nostrand Company, 1970: 771
2. Harvard University Herbaria (http://www.huh.harvard.edu/ ). Cambridge, 22 Divinity Avenue, Massachusetts 02138, USA
3. Lipps, Emma, Lewis., and H. R. De Selm. " The Vascular Flora of the Marshall Forest, Rome, Georgia." Castanea 34 (1969) : 414-432.
4. 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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