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hawthorns
Crataegus
Crataegus (/krəˈtiːɡəs/), commonly called hawthorn, quickthorn, thornapple, May-tree, whitethorn, or hawberry, is a genus of several hundred species of shrubs and trees in the family Rosaceae, native to temperate regions of the Northern Hemisphere in Europe, Asia and North America. The name "hawthorn" was originally applied to the species native to northern Europe, especially the common hawthorn C. monogyna, and the unmodified name is often so used in Britain and Ireland. The name is now also applied...
33 branches of this genus, most-observed first
Crataegus
subgenusCrataegus
Cockspurthorns
subgenusAmericanae
Sanguineae
subgenusSanguineae
Mespilus
subgenusMespilus
Morden Hawthorn
hybridCrataegus × mordenensis
Crataegus ucrainica
speciesCrataegus ucrainica
Brevispinae
subgenusBrevispinae
Crataegus dsungarica
speciesCrataegus dsungarica
Cogswell's hawthorn
hybridCrataegus × cogswellii
Crataegus taurica
speciesCrataegus taurica
Montaninsulae
subsectionMontaninsulae
Stern's Medlar
hybridCrataegus × canescens
Haw-medlar
hybridCrataegus × lobata
Crataegus remotilobata
speciesCrataegus remotilobata
Crataegus russanovii
speciesCrataegus russanovii
St. Clair hawthorn
speciesCrataegus fecunda
Crataegus × ninae-celottiae
hybridCrataegus × ninae-celottiae
Crataegus florens
speciesCrataegus florens
Crataegus victorinii
speciesCrataegus victorinii
Crataegus × poplavskae
hybridCrataegus × poplavskae
Crataegus theodori
speciesCrataegus theodori
Crataegus zagrica
speciesCrataegus zagrica
Crataegus × daghestanica
hybridCrataegus × daghestanica
Narrow-sepal Hawthorn
speciesCrataegus stenosepala
Menand's hawthorn
speciesCrataegus menandiana
Graceful hawthorn
speciesCrataegus thermopegaea
Crataegus × notha
hybridCrataegus × notha
Common Hawthorn × Medlar
hybridCrataegus × gillotii
Crataegus drepanensis
speciesCrataegus drepanensis
Crataegus zichichii
speciesCrataegus zichichii
two-leafed hawthorn
speciesCrataegus subheterophylla
flat-fruited hawthorn
speciesCrataegus platycarpa
Crataegus yaltirikii
speciesCrataegus yaltirikii
Where it lives
Recorded sightings
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This page is assembled live from iNaturalist, GBIF, Wikipedia, the Source Library and the Internet Archive. It is not yet part of the hand-edited codex. iNaturalist taxon 51148.