Crataegus saligna
| Crataegus saligna | |
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| Scientific classification | |
| Kingdom: | Plantae |
| (unranked): | Angiosperms |
| (unranked): | Eudicots |
| (unranked): | Rosids |
| Order: | Rosales |
| Family: | Rosaceae |
| Genus: | Crataegus |
| Section: | Douglasia |
| Series: | Cerrones |
| Species: | C. saligna |
| Binomial name | |
| Crataegus saligna Greene | |
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| Natural range of Crataegus saligna | |
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Crataegus saligna is a species of hawthorn known by the common name willow hawthorn that is seldom cultivated and rather rare in the wild. Its native range is wet areas of western Colorado and northeastern Utah. It is a handsome shrub or small tree with delicate-looking leaves, small flowers, small black fruit, and beautiful reddish bark.
It is related to C. erythropoda and C. rivularis.[1]
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- 1 2 Phipps, J.B. (1999). The relationships of the American black-fruited hawthorns Crataegus erythropoda, C. rivularis, C. saligna and C. brachyacantha to C. ser. Douglasianae (Rosaceae). Sida Contributions to Botany. 18(3): 647–660.
- Phipps, J.B., O’Kennon, R.J., Lance, R.W. (2003). Hawthorns and medlars. Royal Horticultural Society, Cambridge, U.K.
- USDA Plants Profile
- Beatty, B. L. W. F. Jennings, and R. C. Rawlinson (2004, August 11). Crataegus saligna Greene (willow hawthorn): A technical conservation assessment, Prepared for the USDA Forest Service, Rocky Mountain Region, Species Conservation Project
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