Taxon: Crataegus aestivalis (Walter) Torr. & A. Gray

Common names:

• eastern mayhaw   (Source: J Arn Arb 69:423.) – English
  
• May hawthorn   (Source: Trees US ) – English
  
• mayhaw   (Source: Cornucopia ) – English
  

Economic importance:

• Human food: fruit   (fide Trees NFla)
  

More:

View ethnobotanical data from Moerman's Native American Ethnobotany Database

Distributional range:

• NORTHERN AMERICA (Check conservation status in U.S. & Canada in NatureServe Explorer database)
  Southeastern U.S.A.: United States - Alabama [s.e.], Florida [n.], Georgia [s.], North Carolina [s.e.], South Carolina

References:

• Clark, R. C. 1971. The woody plants of Alabama. Ann. Missouri Bot. Gard. 58:175.
• Facciola, S. 1990. Cornucopia, a source book of edible plants. (Cornucopia)
• Kurz, H. & R. K. Godfrey. 1962. The trees of northern Florida. (Trees NFla)
• Little, E. L., Jr. 1979. Checklist of United States trees, Agric. Handb. 541. (Trees US)
• Markle, G. M. et al., eds. 1998. Food and feed crops of the United States, ed. 2. (Food Feed Crops US)
• Phipps, J. 1988. J. Arnold Arbor. 69:420.
• Radford, A. E. et al. 1964. Manual of the vascular flora of the Carolinas. (F Carolin)
• Rehder, A. 1949. Bibliography of cultivated trees and shrubs. (Rehder)

More:

Search AGRICOLA article citation database for citations referencing Crataegus aestivalis.

Search NCBI's Entrez search engine for PubMed citations referencing Crataegus aestivalis. Note: Defaults to a search by genus or species epithet if species binomial not found.

Synonyms:

• (≡) Mespilus aestivalis Walter (basionym)
  

Check other databases for Crataegus aestivalis (Walter) Torr. & A. Gray:

• PLANTS: USDA-NRCS Database of Plants of the United States and its Territories
• TROPICOS: Nomenclatural and Specimen Database of the Missouri Botanical Garden
• Mansfeld: Mansfeld's World Database of Agricultural and Horticultural Crops
• ePIC: Electronic Plant Information Centre of Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew
• AGRICOLA: Article Citation Database or NAL Catalog of USDA's National Agricultural Library
• Entrez: NCBI's search engine for PubMed citations, GenBank sequences, etc.
  Note: Defaults to a search by genus or species epithet if species binomial not found.

Images:

• Pyrene: U.S. National Seed Herbarium image

More:

• Check PlantSystematics.org for additional images
• Images Note: Be advised that their identity may be inaccurate. Proper identification of a plant may require specialized taxonomic knowledge or comparison with properly documented herbarium material.

Abbreviations & symbols in GRIN Taxonomy

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