English Hawthorn - Crataegus monogyna
Other Names:
Common Hawthorn, Single-seeded Hawthorn
Shrub or small tree 5–8 m high. Stems reddish at first, becoming gray; thorns 1–2 cm long, straight. Leaf blades ovate, 2–4 cm long, serrate, deeply 3- to 7-lobed, glabrous to sparsely hairy. Inflorescence 10- to 20-flowered, pubescent. Flowers: hypanthium pubescent; sepals 1–2 mm long; petals 5–7 mm long; stamens 20; style 1. Pome 8–10 mm wide, red, glabrous (
Lesica et al. 2012. Manual of Montana Vascular Plants. BRIT Press. Fort Worth, TX).
Escaped from cultivation throughout most of temperate N. America and collected in Missoula County; native to Europe (
Lesica et al. 2012. Manual of Montana Vascular Plants. BRIT Press. Fort Worth, TX).
POLLINATORS The following animal species have been reported as pollinators of this plant species or its genus where their geographic ranges overlap:
Bombus vagans,
Bombus auricomus,
Bombus melanopygus,
Bombus mixtus,
Bombus nevadensis,
Bombus pensylvanicus,
Bombus bimaculatus,
Bombus griseocollis, and
Bombus impatiens (Macior 1968, Thorp et al. 1983, Colla and Dumesh 2010).