Scientific name: Crataegus rigens Beadle
Common name: Gadsden Hawthorn
Family: Rosaceae; Rose
Flowering period: April
Fruiting period: September- October
Habitat: "In woods and on the banks of the streames in Georgia and Alabama" - Chauncey D. Beadle, 1903.

Type locality: Gadsden, Alabama
Herbarium specimens: Specimen ID: NY 435968, Collections at New York Botanical Garden, New York, NY

Description: "A small tree 4-6 m tall, with dark gray scaly bark, or more frequently a large much-branched shrub with one or several stems. Leaf -blades obovate, broadly oval or occasionally nearly rounded, 2-5 cm long, 1.5-4 cm wide, mostly pointed at the apex, contracted or narrowed at the base into margined glandular petioles, glabrous or glabrate when fully grown, the borders sharply and irregularly serrate and occasionally shallowly incised, especially on leading shoots: corymbs simple or subsimple: pedicels and hypanthium pubescent: sepals lanceolate, pubescent, glandular: stamens 20, and anthers nearly white: fruit subglobose or slightly pyriform, 9-12 mm thick, red when fully ripe, ripening about a month earlier that that of C. collina, the flesh firm: nutlets 3-5, about 8 mm long, the hypostyle occupying two-thirds of the ventral angle." - 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: 541.
2. The New York Botanical Garden Vascular Plant Types Catalog: (http://www.nybg.org/bsci/hcol/vasc/ ), New York Botanical Garden, 200th Street and Kazimiroff Boulevard Bronx, NY 10458

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