General Plant Information (Edit)
| Plant Habit: |
Tree
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| Sun Requirements: |
Full Sun
Full Sun to Partial Shade
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| Water Preferences: |
Mesic
Dry Mesic
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| Soil pH Preferences: |
Slightly acid (6.1 – 6.5)
Neutral (6.6 – 7.3)
Slightly alkaline (7.4 – 7.8)
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| Minimum cold hardiness: |
Zone 4a -34.4 °C (-30 °F) to -31.7 °C (-25 °F)
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| Maximum recommended zone: |
Zone 7b
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| Plant Height: |
20 to 25 feet |
| Plant Spread: |
20 to 35 feet |
| Leaves: |
Good fall color
Deciduous
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| Fruit: |
Showy
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| Fruiting Time: |
Late summer or early fall
Fall
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| Flowers: |
Showy
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| Flower Color: |
White
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| Flower Time: |
Spring
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| Wildlife Attractant: |
Bees
Birds
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| Pollinators: |
Bees
Various insects
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| Miscellaneous: |
Tolerates poor soil
With thorns/spines/prickles/teeth
Monoecious
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- Green Hawthorn
- Southern thorn
- Southern Hawthorn
Posted by
ILPARW (southeast Pennsylvania - Zone 6b) on Jan 1, 2018 4:18 PM concerning plant:
The Green Hawthorn is native from Maryland & Virginia to Illinois & Iowa to east Texas to Georgia. Its leaves are 1.5 to 3.5 inches long x 3/4 to 2.5 inches wide, shallowly lobed, lustrous medium green that turn orange to red in autumn. It bears thorns about 1.5 inches long, but not many of them. The flowers are white with yellow anthers borne in 2 inch wide corymb clusters in May. The fruit is red and get to 1/3 inch in diameter. The bark is handsome being smooth gray and then eventually bon the trunk becoming exfoliating to expose an orange-brown inner bark. The straight species is not used in landscaping, but there is a cultivar named 'Winter King' that is becoming the most commonly planted hawthorn in the East and Midwestern US that has larger fruit.
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