Scientific name: Crataegus valida Beadle
Common name: Rockmart Hawthorn
Family: Rosaceae; Rose
Flowering period: April
Fruiting period: September
Habitat: on hills and rocky exposures

Type locality: near Rockmart, Polk Co., Georgia
Herbarium specimens: NY ID: 436155 , Collections at New York Botanical Garden Herbarium, New York, NY

Description: "A large shrub or small tree 2-5 m tall, with gray or brownish, rough or scaly bark and spreading or ascending branches. Leaf-blades obovate, oval or orbicular, 2-5 cm long, 1.5 cm broad, or larger and broader than long on the shoots glabrous or very nearly so at maturity, rounded or abruptly pointed at the apex, contracted or rounded, or on strong shoots truncate or subcordate at the base, the margins irregularly dentate; petioles 5-15 mm long, margined, glandular: corymbs 3-5 flowered: pedicles and hypanhthium sparsely pilose-pubescent: sepals 3-4 mm long, 1.5-2 mm wide, serrate, glandular: corolla 15-20 mm wide: stamens 20, the anthers purple: fruit subglobose, 12-15 mm thick, the cavity 4-6 mm wide: nutlets 3-5, 8-9 mm long, 4-5 mm deep, the hypostyle about 5 mm long." - Chauncey D. Beadle, 1903.

Last updated on November 12, 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: 549.
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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