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Crataegus punctata - (image 1 of 4)

Taxonomy

Family: Rosaceae

Habitat

Floodplains, meadows, fields, woodland borders, thickets.

Associates

Distribution

Newfoundland, Quebec, and New England to SC and GA, west to MN, IA, and OK.

Morphology

Small tree to 10 m; twigs glabrous, usually with thorns 4-6 cm; leaves thick, firm, with impressed veins above, dull, glabrous or short-hairy on one or both surfaces, the floral ones mostly obovate, 2.5-6 cm long and 1.5-4.5 cm wide, unlobed or only obscurely and shallowly lobed, the vegetative ones much larger, sometimes more rhombic or suborbicular, and often more or less lobed; flowers 1-2 cm wide, in villous or glabrous compound cymes; sepals lanceolate or lance-linear, entire or obscurely glandular-serrate; stamens 12-20; fruit 8-15 mm thick, dull or sometimes bright red to yellow; nutlets 3-5.      

Notes

Flowers mid April to late May

Wetland indicator: NA

The name apparently refers to the glandular dots on the fruit, though sources do not seem to indicate that this feature is diagnostic. 

References

Gleason, Henry A. and A. Cronquist. 1991. Manual of Vascular Plants of Northeastern United States and Adjacent Canada. Second Ed.
The New York Botanical Garden. Bronx, NY

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