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.
• Kurz, H. & R. K. Godfrey. 1962. The trees of northern Florida.
• Little, E. L., Jr. 1979. Checklist of United States trees, Agric. Handb. 541.
• Markle, G. M. et al., eds. 1998. Food and feed crops of the United States, ed. 2.
• Phipps, J. B. 1988. Crataegus (Maloideae, Rosaceae) of the southeastern United States, I. Intrduction and series Aestivales. J. Arnold Arbor. 69:420.
• Radford, A. E. et al. 1964. Manual of the vascular flora of the Carolinas.
• Rehder, A. 1949. Bibliography of cultivated trees and shrubs.

More:

Search AGRICOLA article citation database for citations referencing Crataegus aestivalis.

Search NCBI's Entrez search engine for PubMed citations referencing Crataegus aestivalis.

Search Biodiversity Heritage Library for historical publications referencing Crataegus aestivalis.

Synonyms:

• (≡) Mespilus aestivalis Walter (basionym)
  

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

• PLANTS: USDA-NRCS Database of Plants of the United States and its Territories
• BONAP: North American Plant Atlas of the Biota of North America Program
• 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.

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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