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Crataegus pulcherrima
Beautiful hawthorn is a shrub or small tree of the southeastern United States, grown mainly as an ornamental for its spring flowers and red autumn fruit. It is a species in a group of hawthorns that has been little studied in cultivation.
Crataegus pulcherrima is a species of Hawthorn native to the southeastern United States. This species and those related to it that are classified in Crataegus series Pulcherrimae have been largely ignored since they were originally described in 1903, but warrant consideration as ornamental cultivated plants.
Crataegus pulcherrima is native from eastern Mississippi east to Alabama and western Georgia, north to south-central Tennessee and south to the Florida Panhandle. It has been reported in Louisiana and South Carolina.
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Text excerpted from the Wikipedia article Crataegus pulcherrima by its contributors, under CC BY-SA 4.0; the excerpts and the care summary drawn from them are shared under the same licence.
The care summary was written by AI (Claude, Anthropic) from the sources on this page, with general growing knowledge where they are silent. Check before relying on it.
Life form, climate and native range: World Checklist of Vascular Plants, Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (CC BY 3.0), reformatted; see Plants of the World Online.
