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|accepted_name=Crataegus crocea
|accepted_authority=Beadle
|publications={{Treatment/Publication
|title=Biltmore Bot. Stud.
|place=1: 113. 1902
|year=1902
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|special_status={{Treatment/ID/Special_status
|code=E
|label=Endemic
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|code=F
|label=Illustrated
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|basionyms=
|synonyms={{Treatment/ID/Synonym
|name=Crataegus curva
|authority=Beadle
|rank=species
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|name=C. dapsilis
|authority=Beadle
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|name=C. frugalis
|authority=Beadle
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|name=C. incana
|authority=Beadle
|rank=species
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|name=C. lassa var. recurva
|authority=(Beadle) Lance
|rank=variety
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|name=C. rava
|authority=Beadle
|rank=species
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|name=C. recurva
|authority=Beadle
|rank=species
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|name=C. villaris
|authority=Beadle
|rank=species
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|hierarchy=Rosaceae;Rosaceae subfam. Amygdaloideae;Rosaceae tribe Gillenieae;Crataegus;Crataegus sect. Coccineae;Crataegus (sect. Coccineae) ser. Lacrimatae;Crataegus crocea
|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. Lacrimatae]]</div><div class="higher-taxon"><small>species</small>[[Crataegus crocea]]</div></div>
|volume=Volume 9
|mention_page=page 618, 619, 622, 625
|treatment_page=page 623
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--><span class="statement" id="st-d0_s0" data-properties="whole_organism some measurement;whole_organism growth form;whole_organism some measurement;whole_organism growth form;branch architecture"><b>Shrubs </b>or trees, 20–60 dm, branches strongly weeping (moving in slight wind).</span> <span class="statement" id="st-d0_s1" data-properties="growth life cycle;growth pubescence;growth coloration;growth coloration;growth life cycle;growth coloration;growth size"><b>Stems:</b> twigs: new growth densely appressed-white-hairy, 1-year old gray-brown to purple-brown, older gray, slender;</span> <span class="statement" id="st-d0_s2" data-properties="thorn course;thorn coloration;thorn coloration;thorn width;thorn some measurement;twig presence;twig quantity">thorns on twigs absent or numerous, straight, 2-years old purple-brown to gray, ± fine, 1–4 cm.</span> <span class="statement" id="st-d0_s3" data-properties="petiole length;petiole architecture or function or pubescence;petiole life cycle"><b>Leaves:</b> petiole length 20–25% blade, densely pubescent, glandular at least young;</span> <span class="statement" id="st-d0_s4" data-properties="blade shape;blade some measurement;blade width;base shape;lobe presence;lobe prominence;margin architecture or shape;margin architecture or shape;margin coloration;margin life cycle;vein quantity;apex shape;apex shape;apex shape;apex shape;apex shape;apex shape;abaxial surface pubescence;vein pubescence;vein pubescence;adaxial surface pubescence;adaxial surface life cycle">blade usually spatulate or narrowly oblong to narrowly oblanceolate or narrowly elliptic, 1–2.5 cm, thin (drooping or fluttering in wind), base cuneate, lobes 0 or obscure, margins entire, sometimes obscurely crenate-serrate distally, gland-dotted young, veins 1–4 per side (narrowly diverging, exiting beyond widest part of leaf), apex subacute, obtuse, or truncate, usually tapered sharply, abaxial surface slightly pubescent, veins conspicuously pubescent, glabrescent, adaxial often densely pubescent young.</span> <span class="statement" id="st-d0_s5" data-properties="inflorescence architecture"><b>Inflorescences </b>1–3-flowered;</span> <span class="statement" id="st-d0_s6" data-properties="branch pubescence">branches densely appressed-white-pubescent;</span> <span class="statement" id="st-d0_s7" data-properties="bracteole arrangement or course or shape;margin architecture or function or pubescence;margin pubescence">bracteoles linear, margins glandular, adaxially short-pubescent.</span> <span class="statement" id="st-d0_s8" data-properties="flower diameter"><b>Flowers </b>16–18 mm diam.;</span> <span class="statement" id="st-d0_s9" data-properties="hypanthium pubescence">hypanthium densely white-pubescent;</span> <span class="statement" id="st-d0_s10" data-properties="sepal shape;sepal some measurement;margin architecture or function or pubescence;margin pubescence">sepals narrowly triangular, 4 mm, margins glandular, abaxially sparsely pubescent;</span> <span class="statement" id="st-d0_s11" data-properties="petal arrangement or shape;petal arrangement or shape">petals elliptic or ± circular;</span> <span class="statement" id="st-d0_s12" data-properties="anther coloration">anthers cream;</span> <span class="statement" id="st-d0_s13" data-properties="style quantity">styles 3.</span> <span class="statement" id="st-d0_s14" data-properties="pome coloration;pome shape;pome diameter;pome pubescence"><b>Pomes </b>yellow to copper-orange or reddish orange, suborbicular, 8 mm diam., pubescent to glabrescent;</span> <span class="statement" id="st-d0_s15" data-properties="sepal remnant quantity;sepal remnant orientation;sepal remnant dehiscence">sepal remnants none or reflexed, sometimes circumscissile;</span> <span class="statement" id="st-d0_s16" data-properties="pyrene quantity">pyrenes 3.</span><!--

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|phenology=Flowering late Feb–Apr; fruiting Jul–Aug.
|habitat=Sand plains, open scrub
|elevation=0–200 m
|distribution=Ala.;Fla.;Ga.;N.C.;S.C.
|discussion=<p>Crataegus crocea ranges from southwestern Alabama to central Florida into North Carolina; it is particularly abundant and locally common in Alachua and Marion counties, Florida.</p><!--
--><p>A wide view is taken of Crataegus crocea. The typical form, which represents one pole of variation, has narrowly elliptic leaves perfectly smooth in outline, acute at the apices, the distal margins sometimes finely denticulate and larger leaves slightly incised distally. It is the most distinctive form of the species and is locally common at least in northern Florida. Other forms with similar leaves may be referred to C. frugalis and, if with larger leaves at maturity sometimes slightly incised distally, to C. recurva. Crataegus curva is a form that is somewhat similar to the type but is wider and shorter and has shorter petioles. Often, leaves of C. crocea are wider than the type form and somewhat spatulate; these represent C. villaris and C. incana, the latter with particularly dense tomentum when young. All the foregoing forms intergrade. Forms such as C. adusta Beadle, with more or less spatulate leaves often with strongly crenulate to obscurely lobed leaf apices, are intermediate with C. condigna. They are larger in all their parts than typical C. crocea.</p><!--
--><p>In spite of its variability, there should usually be no difficulty separating Crataegus crocea either from C. munda or from the small-leaved C. condigna, both subser. Tenues, both of which have obviously toothed leaf margins, nor from C. lacrimata with its glabrous inflorescences and more or less eglandular bracteoles. Larger-leaved forms of C. crocea, with spatulate-cuneate blades obscurely crenate-serrate distally, may resemble the C. illudens form of C. lassa (subser. Robustae) from Selma, Alabama; they retain the smaller fruit of C. crocea.</p><!--
--><p>A related, unnamed form known from northern Florida has particularly long petioles, narrowly rhombic-obovate leaf blades (that is, with the lateral vertices nearer the distal end), and more or less entire margins.</p><!--
--><p>Crataegus crocea can form an attractive, delicate shrub, which should be very suitable for xeriscaping.</p>
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name=Crataegus crocea
|authority=Beadle
|rank=species
|parent rank=series
|synonyms=Crataegus curva;C. dapsilis;C. frugalis;C. incana;C. lassa var. recurva;C. rava;C. recurva;C. villaris
|basionyms=
|family=Rosaceae
|phenology=Flowering late Feb–Apr; fruiting Jul–Aug.
|habitat=Sand plains, open scrub
|elevation=0–200 m
|distribution=Ala.;Fla.;Ga.;N.C.;S.C.
|reference=None
|publication title=Biltmore Bot. Stud.
|publication year=1902
|special status=Endemic;Illustrated
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|subfamily=Rosaceae subfam. Amygdaloideae
|tribe=Rosaceae tribe Gillenieae
|genus=Crataegus
|section=Crataegus sect. Coccineae
|series=Crataegus (sect. Coccineae) ser. Lacrimatae
|species=Crataegus crocea
|abaxial surface pubescence=pubescent
|adaxial surface life cycle=young
|adaxial surface pubescence=pubescent
|anther coloration=cream
|apex shape=tapered;truncate;obtuse;truncate;obtuse;subacute
|base shape=cuneate
|blade shape=narrowly oblong;narrowly oblanceolate or narrowly elliptic
|blade some measurement=1cm;2.5cm
|blade width=thin
|bracteole arrangement or course or shape=linear
|branch architecture=weeping
|branch pubescence=appressed-white-pubescent
|flower diameter=16mm;18mm
|growth coloration=gray;gray-brown;purple-brown
|growth life cycle=older;new
|growth pubescence=appressed-white-hairy
|growth size=slender
|hypanthium pubescence=white-pubescent
|inflorescence architecture=1-3-flowered
|lobe presence=absent
|lobe prominence=obscure
|margin architecture or function or pubescence=glandular;glandular
|margin architecture or shape=crenate-serrate;entire
|margin coloration=gland-dotted
|margin life cycle=young
|margin pubescence=pubescent;short-pubescent
|petal arrangement or shape=circular;elliptic
|petiole architecture or function or pubescence=glandular
|petiole length=pubescent
|petiole life cycle=young
|pome coloration=yellow;copper-orange or reddish orange
|pome diameter=8
|pome pubescence=pubescent;glabrescent
|pome shape=suborbicular
|pyrene quantity=3
|sepal remnant dehiscence=circumscissile
|sepal remnant orientation=reflexed
|sepal remnant quantity=0
|sepal shape=triangular
|sepal some measurement=4
|style quantity=3
|thorn coloration=purple-brown;gray
|thorn course=straight
|thorn some measurement=1cm;4cm
|thorn width=fine
|twig presence=absent
|twig quantity=numerous
|vein pubescence=glabrescent;pubescent
|vein quantity=1;4
|whole_organism growth form=tree;shrub
|whole_organism some measurement=20dm;60dm
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