Crataegus schuettei Ashe
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- Family
- Rosaceae
- Botanical Name
- Crataegus schuettei Ashe
- Common Name
- Schuette's Hawthorn
- Synonym(s)
- Flora of Virginia Name/Status
- Crataegus schuettei Ashe
- Comments
- Crataegus schuettii differs from C. macrosperma most conspicuously in stamen number (15-20 rather than 5-8). Additionally, its leaves are often blue-green and more firm in texture, and fruits more often subglobose. See comments under C. macrosperma. This species is often called C. basilica Beadle in the Southeast (Phipps, pers. comm.).
- Habitat
- In a wide variety of habitats including wet stream-bottom forests, old fields, and open rocky forests and woodlands. Infrequent but widespread in the mountains, rare in the inner Piedmont; also collected in Middlesex County in the northern Coastal Plain.
- Native Status
- Native
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