Crataegus schuettei Ashe

Locations ofCrataegus schuettei Ashe in Virginia

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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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