In my old Golden Tree Guide from the 1960's this was listed as being a common species. Its native range is south of Lakes Eire & Huron an...Read Mored more than half way up Lake Michigan into WI into IA, MO, IL, IN, OH, KY, TN to north GA. Another book, the larger Golden Guide to Trees of North America shows it native to all around the Great Lakes, New England, and southeast Canada. Its scientific name should be Crataegus coccinea, that is the older name. Its leaves are 3 to 4" long and shallowly lobed, it has many flowers per cluster, its red fruits are spotted with dark dots, and its thorns are 1 to 2" long.
In this state of Indiana, this plant is listed as a threatened species. Please don't cut one down! And please plant one if you have the o...Read Morepportunity.
Note: Crataegus pedicellata is a name for a species of Hawthorn that has been shown to be the same as C. coccinea L., common name "Scarlet Hawthorn". Under the International Code of Botanical Nomenclature, the older name (Crataegus coccinea) should be used. Considerable confusion persists, however, because the name C. coccinea has been misapplied for a long time.
In my old Golden Tree Guide from the 1960's this was listed as being a common species. Its native range is south of Lakes Eire & Huron an...Read More
In this state of Indiana, this plant is listed as a threatened species. Please don't cut one down! And please plant one if you have the o...Read More