Crataegus iracundaBeadle

stolonbearing hawthorn

WFO wfo-0001010393 Accepted WFO 2026-06 8 photographs CC0 / CC BY

Plate 1 figs. a–h · 4 observations

This species has been photographed under an open licence only 4 times, so some figures below are different views of the same plant, taken on the same day, rather than different individuals. They are usually different parts of it: the leaf, the flower, the bark.

Crataegus iracunda, photographed by John Kees
fig. a John Kees, CC0 1.0 / 2022-06-08 / obs. 204515529
Crataegus iracunda, photographed by sblumen
fig. b sblumen, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 200165345
Crataegus iracunda, photographed by John Kees
fig. c John Kees, CC0 1.0 / obs. 140075198
Crataegus iracunda, photographed by Will McFarland
fig. d Will McFarland, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 69237252
Crataegus iracunda, photographed by John Kees
fig. e John Kees, CC0 1.0 / obs. 204515556
Crataegus iracunda, photographed by sblumen
fig. f sblumen, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 200165379
Crataegus iracunda, photographed by John Kees
fig. g John Kees, CC0 1.0 / obs. 140075211
Crataegus iracunda, photographed by Will McFarland
fig. h Will McFarland, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 69237343

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Native range 17 botanical countries

Regions where Crataegus iracunda is native: Alabama, Connecticut, Delaware, Georgia, Kentucky, Louisiana, Massachusetts, Mississippi, New York, North Carolina, Ohio, Pennsylvania, Québec, Rhode I., South Carolina, Tennessee, Virginia AlabamaConnecticutGeorgiaKentuckyLouisianaMassachusettsMississippiNew YorkNorth CarolinaOhioPennsylvaniaQuébecSouth CarolinaTennesseeVirginia DelawareRhode I.
Native distribution of Crataegus iracunda, after Kew’s World Checklist of Vascular Plants. Introduced, extinct and doubtful records are excluded, so this is where the plant is from, not everywhere it now grows. Regions too small to draw at this scale are marked with a dot.
RegionTDWG codeContinent
Alabama ALA NORTHERN AMERICA
Connecticut CNT
Delaware DEL
Georgia GEO
Kentucky KTY
Louisiana LOU
Massachusetts MAS
Mississippi MSI
New York NWY
North Carolina NCA
Ohio OHI
Pennsylvania PEN
Québec QUE
Rhode I. RHO
South Carolina SCA
Tennessee TEN
Virginia VRG

Region boundaries approximated from Natural Earth (public domain) and mapped to TDWG World Geographical Scheme for Recording Plant Distributions (WGSRPD) level-3 botanical countries (Brummitt 2001). Indicative, not the official WGSRPD geometry.

Also published as 12 synonyms

A synonym is not an error. It is a record of botanists disagreeing, in print, about where this plant belongs. Each of these was somebody’s considered answer.

  • Crataegus aemula Beadle
  • Crataegus beckwithiae Sarg.
  • Crataegus diffusa Sarg.
  • Crataegus drymopila Sarg.
  • Crataegus iracunda var. diffusa (Sarg.) Kruschke
  • Crataegus iracunda var. iracunda
  • Crataegus iracunda var. silvicola (Beadle) E.J.Palmer
  • Crataegus levis Sarg.
  • Crataegus riparia Salisb.
  • Crataegus sectilis Ashe
  • Crataegus silvicola Beadle
  • Crataegus silvicola var. beckwithiae (Sarg.) Eggl.

Sourcesevery claim on this page

  1. World Flora Online Plant List. accepted name, authority, classification. CC0. Retrieved 2026-07-12.
  2. iNaturalist. photographs and flowering annotations, CC0 / CC BY / CC BY-SA only. per photograph. Retrieved 2026-06-27.
  3. Wikidata. common name (P1843), joined on the World Flora Online identifier (P7715). CC0. Retrieved 2026-07-13.
  4. Kew, World Checklist of Vascular Plants (WCVP v16). native distribution by TDWG level-3 botanical country, and life form. CC BY 3.0. Retrieved 2026-06-04.

We publish what we can source and we say so when we cannot. This page has no care advice and no toxicity claim, because we do not yet have those from a source we can cite.