Green hawthorn

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Green hawthorn fruit

Green hawthorn fruit

Green hawthorn bark

Green hawthorn

Green hawthorn buds

Green hawthorn flowers

Green hawthorn inflorescence

Green hawthorn leaf

Green hawthorn bud and thorn

Morphology

Trunk

Stems ascending to erect; branches armed, thorns tan to reddish brown, straight, 1.2 to 1.6 inches; bark reddish brown to gray, furrows shallow, ridges scaly, exfoliating in large flakes.

Twigs

Reddish brown to grayish brown, rigid, glabrous; leaf scars elliptic to half-round; buds reddish brown, ovoid, .06 to .08 inch, apex obtuse, scales glabrous.

Leaves

Deciduous, alternate, simple; petiole .28 to 1 inch, glabrous or glabrate; blade round to ovate, oblong, or rhombic-elliptic, .8 to 1.6 inches long, .4 to 1.4 inches wide, thin, base wedge-shaped, lobes 0-2 per side, margins serrate, veins 3(-4) per side, apex acute to obtuse, lower surface light green, with tufts of hairs in leaf axils, upper surface dark green, dull, minutely pubescent or glabrate.

Flowers

Inflorescences terminal from new growth, corymbs, 3-12-flowered; pedicels .16 to .3 inch, glabrous. Flowers bisexual, radially symmetric, .5 to .7 inch diameter; hypanthium obconic, glabrous; sepals 5, spreading, triangular, .08 to .12 inch; petals 5, white, obovate, .2 to .35 inch; stamens 20; anthers white; pistil 1, ovary inferior, 3-5-locular, partially adnate to hypanthium; styles 3-5, connate proximally, .16 to .2 inch; stigmas as many as styles, capitate.

Fruit

September-October; pomes, red to orangish red, nearly spherical, .2 to .3 inch diameter, glabrous or glabrate, not glaucous; sepals persistent; stones 3-5, yellowish brown, wedge-shaped, .18 to .24 inch long,.08 to .14 inch wide.

Ecology

Habitat

Stream banks, floodplain forests and woodlands, pastures.

Distribution

Southeast 1/5 of Kansas

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