jk_lewis
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Anyone who says he or she can ID a wild hawthorn -- aside from the few which have made it into the commercial horticultural marketplace -- is blowing smoke, but this one looks very much like the leaf of what is called the Thicket Hawthorn, Crataegus indicata. It grows here in NC, "they" say.
That's as good an ID as you are going to get. The genus is a taxonomic nightmare. The estimates of the number of species of hawthorn in North America range from 100 to 1,000.
The plants are quite variable and appear to crossbreed so readily that individual plants can look like 3 or 4 separate plants.
That's as good an ID as you are going to get. The genus is a taxonomic nightmare. The estimates of the number of species of hawthorn in North America range from 100 to 1,000.
The plants are quite variable and appear to crossbreed so readily that individual plants can look like 3 or 4 separate plants.
