Crataegus microphyllaK.Koch

WFO wfo-0000988750 Accepted WFO 2026-06 8 photographs CC BY

Plate 1 figs. a–h · 3 observations

This species has been photographed under an open licence only 3 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 microphylla, photographed by Михаил Орлов
fig. a Михаил Орлов, CC BY 4.0 / 2020-05-25 / obs. 74981012
Crataegus microphylla, photographed by Михаил Орлов
fig. b Михаил Орлов, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 53192151
Crataegus microphylla, photographed by Михаил Орлов
fig. c Михаил Орлов, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 74981034
Crataegus microphylla, photographed by Михаил Орлов
fig. d Михаил Орлов, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 53192157
Crataegus microphylla, photographed by Михаил Орлов
fig. e Михаил Орлов, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 74981068
Crataegus microphylla, photographed by Михаил Орлов
fig. f Михаил Орлов, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 53192167
Crataegus microphylla, photographed by Татьяна Максимова
fig. g Татьяна Максимова, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 193946210
Crataegus microphylla, photographed by Татьяна Максимова
fig. h Татьяна Максимова, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 193946300

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The specimen a real sheet, in a real collection

Herbarium
Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew
Accession
K000758662
Filed as
Crataegus microphylla K.Koch
Det. by
Christensen, K.I.
Collected
Bornmüller, J. 1890-07-15
Origin
TR
The sheet
View the digitised specimen (CC BY 4.0)

A real pressed plant, in a real collection, under the accession number above. Not an illustration of one. The holding institution does not serve this sheet’s image to third parties, so there is no photograph here. The record is real and the link goes to it. Where we hold no openly licensed sheet for a species this section is simply absent, and where a sheet never recorded who determined it, that field stays empty rather than being filled in. Roughly half of all herbarium sheets never recorded a determiner, which is ordinary.

Native range 10 botanical countries

Regions where Crataegus microphylla is native: Iran, Iraq, Transcaucasus, Türkiye, Bulgaria, Central European Russia, East European Russia, Krym, NW. Balkan Pen., Ukraine IranIraqTranscaucasusTürkiyeBulgariaCentral European RussiaEast European RussiaKrymNW. Balkan Pen.Ukraine
Native distribution of Crataegus microphylla, 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.
RegionTDWG codeContinent
Bulgaria BUL EUROPE
Central European Russia RUC
East European Russia RUE
Krym KRY
NW. Balkan Pen. YUG
Ukraine UKR
Iran IRN ASIA-TEMPERATE
Iraq IRQ
Transcaucasus TCS
Türkiye TUR

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.

Where it actually grows measured, from 51 observations

Condition 5th percentile Median 95th percentile
Coldest month, mean daily low -8.6 °C -2.3 °C 3.1 °C
Warmest month, mean daily high 19.9 °C 25.3 °C 27.8 °C
Annual rainfall 726 mm 977 mm 2,288 mm
Rainfall in the driest quarter 95 mm 184 mm 440 mm

It is found where winters bring hard frost. This is not care advice and it is not a forecast. It is a measurement: we sampled the climate at every one of the 51 research-grade observations of Crataegus microphylla that carry a coordinate, and this is the range those places actually span. The 5th and 95th percentiles are used rather than the minimum and maximum, because a single cultivated specimen in a heated conservatory should not widen a tropical plant's range to the Arctic.

This is not a hardiness zone. A USDA zone is the average annual extreme minimum temperature. The figure above is the mean daily minimum of the coldest month, which is a different quantity and is typically far warmer. Reading one as the other would place a plant several zones too warm, so we do not publish a hardiness zone, because we do not have one.

Also published as 17 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 coccinea Dostál
  • Crataegus laevigata subsp. microphylla (K.Koch) Dostál
  • Crataegus lagenaria Fisch. & C.A.Mey. ex Boiss.
  • Crataegus lagenaria Fisch. & C.A.Mey.
  • Crataegus lagenaria var. orthosepala Bornm.
  • Crataegus lagenaria var. transcaucasica Diap.
  • Crataegus microphylla var. dolichocarpa (Sommier & Levier) Hand.-Mazz.
  • Crataegus monogyna var. dolichocarpa Sommier & Levier
  • Crataegus monogyna var. lagenaria Wenz.
  • Crataegus monogyna var. pinnatiloba (Lange) Dippel
  • Crataegus orthosepala (Bornm.) Diap.
  • Crataegus orthosepala var. glabra Diap.
  • Crataegus pinnatiloba Lange
  • Crataegus pinnatiloba var. sphaerocarpa Lange
  • Mespilus microphylla (K.Koch) K.Koch
  • Mespilus monogyna var. lagenaria (Fisch. & C.A.Mey. ex Boiss.) Wenz.
  • Mespilus monogyna var. lagenaria Wenz.

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. 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.