Crataegus uniflora Muenchh. Common name: Dwarf Hawthorn, One-flowered Hawthorn Family: Rosacae; Rose Origin: Native Flowering period: April- May Fruiting period: September- October Habitat: Sandy or rocky banks and woods Illustration: USDA-NRCS PLANTS Database / Britton, N.L., and A. Brown. 1913. Illustrated flora of the northern states and Canada. Vol. 2: 320.

Description:- " A slender shrub 0.6-1.5 m high. with slender often flexuous thorny branchlets, villous while young; leaves obovate, oblong or elliptic, sharply or crenately serrate and sometimes obscurely lobed above the middle, especially on vegetative shoots, pubescent while young, thick, the veins impressed above at maturity; petioles short, stout, wing-margined above; flowers 1-1.5 cm wide, single or rarely 2-5, on short tomentose pedicles; stamens 20 or more; anthers small, white or pale yellow; calyx-lobes lanceolate, pectinate or deeply glandular-serrate, persistent on the fruit; fruit 1-1.3 cm thick, subglobose or slightly pyriform, greenish-yellow or dull red, with dry or mealy flesh and 3-5 (usually 5) nutlets." - Ernest Jesse Palmer, 1950

Last updated on November 12, 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. 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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