Crataegus saligna

Crataegus saligna
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
Natural range of Crataegus saligna
Synonyms[1]
  • C. douglasii var. duchesnensis S.L.Welsh
  • C. wheeleri A.Nelson

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. 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.


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