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|accepted_name=Crataegus communis
|accepted_authority=Beadle
|publications={{Treatment/Publication
|title=Biltmore Bot. Stud.
|place=1: 58. 1902
|year=1902
}}
|special_status={{Treatment/ID/Special_status
|code=C
|label=Conservation concern
}}{{Treatment/ID/Special_status
|code=E
|label=Endemic
}}
|basionyms=
|synonyms=
|hierarchy=Rosaceae;Rosaceae subfam. Amygdaloideae;Rosaceae tribe Gillenieae;Crataegus;Crataegus sect. Coccineae;Crataegus (sect. Coccineae) ser. Intricatae;Crataegus communis
|hierarchy_nav=<div class="higher-taxa"><div class="higher-taxon"><small>family</small>[[Rosaceae]]</div><div class="higher-taxon"><small>subfamily</small>[[Rosaceae subfam. Amygdaloideae]]</div><div class="higher-taxon"><small>tribe</small>[[Rosaceae tribe Gillenieae]]</div><div class="higher-taxon"><small>genus</small>[[Crataegus]]</div><div class="higher-taxon"><small>section</small>[[Crataegus sect. Coccineae]]</div><div class="higher-taxon"><small>series</small>[[Crataegus (sect. Coccineae) ser. Intricatae]]</div><div class="higher-taxon"><small>species</small>[[Crataegus communis]]</div></div>
|volume=Volume 9
|mention_page=page 587, 589
|treatment_page=page 590
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--><span class="statement" id="st-d0_s0" data-properties="whole_organism some measurement;whole_organism growth form"><b>Shrubs,</b> 15–20 dm.</span> <span class="statement" id="st-d0_s1" data-properties="growth life cycle;growth coloration;growth pubescence;growth life cycle;growth reflectance;growth coloration;growth life cycle;growth coloration;growth life cycle;growth coloration"><b>Stems:</b> twigs: new growth reddish, glabrous, 1-year old dull reddish-brown, 2-years old dark gray, older paler gray;</span> <span class="statement" id="st-d0_s2" data-properties="thorn course;thorn coloration;thorn size;thorn height or length or size">thorns on twigs: course not recorded, 2-years old dark, slender, short.</span> <span class="statement" id="st-d0_s3" data-properties="petiole width;petiole length;petiole architecture or function or pubescence"><b>Leaves:</b> petiole 1 mm wide, length 30–50% blade, pubescence not recorded, glandular;</span> <span class="statement" id="st-d0_s4" data-properties="blade arrangement or shape;blade some measurement;blade width;blade texture;base shape;lobe presence;lobe quantity;lobe quantity;lobe prominence;lobe size;lobe apex shape;margin architecture or shape;tooth architecture;vein quantity;vein quantity;apex shape;surface pubescence;surface life cycle;surface pubescence">blade broadly elliptic, 3–8 cm, thin to subcoriaceous, base cuneate, lobes 0, or 2 or 3 per side, obscure or reduced to apiculi, lobe apex subobtuse, margins strongly serrate, teeth gland-tipped, especially toward base, veins 4 or 5 per side, apex acute, surfaces hairy young, glabrescent.</span> <span class="statement" id="st-d0_s5" data-properties="inflorescence architecture"><b>Inflorescences </b>3–8-flowered;</span> <span class="statement" id="st-d0_s6" data-properties="branch pubescence">branches glabrous;</span> <span class="statement" id="st-d0_s7" data-properties="bracteole margin pubescence">bracteole margins short-stipitate-glandular.</span> <span class="statement" id="st-d0_s8" data-properties="flower diameter"><b>Flowers </b>13–18 mm diam.;</span> <span class="statement" id="st-d0_s9" data-properties="hypanthium pubescence">hypanthium glabrous;</span> <span class="statement" id="st-d0_s10" data-properties="sepal some measurement;margin architecture or shape;margin pubescence">sepals 5–7 mm, margins glandular-serrate, abaxially glabrous;</span> <span class="statement" id="st-d0_s11" data-properties="stamen quantity;anther coloration">stamens 10, anthers rose;</span> <span class="statement" id="st-d0_s12" data-properties="style quantity">styles 2–4 (or 5).</span> <span class="statement" id="st-d0_s13" data-properties="pome coloration;pome coloration;pome coloration;pome shape;pome diameter;pome pubescence"><b>Pomes </b>yellow-green to dull orange, orange-red, or red, suborbicular to short-oblong or obovoid, 9–12 mm diam., glabrous;</span> <span class="statement" id="st-d0_s14" data-properties="sepal orientation">sepals on collar, patent-reflexed;</span> <span class="statement" id="st-d0_s15" data-properties="pyrene quantity">pyrenes 2–4 (or 5).</span><!--

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|phenology=Flowering Apr; fruiting Sep–Oct.
|habitat=Brush, successional fields, open woodlands
|elevation=100–400 m
|distribution=Ala.;N.C.;Tenn.
|discussion=<p>Of conservation concern.</p><!--
--><p>Crataegus communis is uncommon and often wrongly annotated as C. straminea. The species has broadly elliptic leaves with small, very obscure or lacking, subobtuse lobes.</p>
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-->{{#Taxon:
name=Crataegus communis
|authority=Beadle
|rank=species
|parent rank=series
|synonyms=
|basionyms=
|family=Rosaceae
|phenology=Flowering Apr; fruiting Sep–Oct.
|habitat=Brush, successional fields, open woodlands
|elevation=100–400 m
|distribution=Ala.;N.C.;Tenn.
|reference=None
|publication title=Biltmore Bot. Stud.
|publication year=1902
|special status=Conservation concern;Endemic
|source xml=https://bibilujan@bitbucket.org/aafc-mbb/fna-fine-grained-xml.git/src/84153f6d59a0a91d69695978a64cee7560374f8e/V9/V9_1005.xml
|subfamily=Rosaceae subfam. Amygdaloideae
|tribe=Rosaceae tribe Gillenieae
|genus=Crataegus
|section=Crataegus sect. Coccineae
|series=Crataegus (sect. Coccineae) ser. Intricatae
|species=Crataegus communis
|anther coloration=rose
|apex shape=acute
|base shape=cuneate
|blade arrangement or shape=elliptic
|blade some measurement=3cm;8cm
|blade texture=subcoriaceous
|blade width=thin
|bracteole margin pubescence=short-stipitate-glandular
|branch pubescence=glabrous
|flower diameter=13mm;18mm
|growth coloration=paler gray;dark gray;reddish-brown;reddish
|growth life cycle=older;old;old;new
|growth pubescence=glabrous
|growth reflectance=dull
|hypanthium pubescence=glabrous
|inflorescence architecture=3-8-flowered
|lobe apex shape=subobtuse
|lobe presence=absent
|lobe prominence=obscure
|lobe quantity=3;2
|lobe size=reduced
|margin architecture or shape=glandular-serrate;serrate
|margin pubescence=glabrous
|petiole architecture or function or pubescence=glandular
|petiole length=pubescence
|petiole width=1
|pome coloration=yellow-green;dull orange orange-red or red
|pome diameter=9mm;12mm
|pome pubescence=glabrous
|pome shape=suborbicular;short-oblong or obovoid
|pyrene quantity=2;4
|sepal orientation=patent-reflexed
|sepal some measurement=5mm;7mm
|stamen quantity=10
|style quantity=2;4
|surface life cycle=young
|surface pubescence=glabrescent;hairy
|thorn coloration=dark
|thorn course=old
|thorn height or length or size=short
|thorn size=slender
|tooth architecture=gland-tipped
|vein quantity=5;4
|whole_organism growth form=shrub
|whole_organism some measurement=15dm;20dm
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