Plate 1 figs. a–h · 8 separate observations
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Native range 11 botanical countries
| Region | TDWG code | Continent |
|---|---|---|
| Albania | ALB | EUROPE |
| Bulgaria | BUL | |
| Greece | GRC | |
| Krym | KRY | |
| NW. Balkan Pen. | YUG | |
| Sicilia | SIC | |
| Türkiye-in-Europe | TUE | |
| Ukraine | UKR | |
| Iran | IRN | ASIA-TEMPERATE |
| 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 264 observations
| Condition | 5th percentile | Median | 95th percentile |
|---|---|---|---|
| Coldest month, mean daily low | -11.2 °C | -2.6 °C | 0.7 °C |
| Warmest month, mean daily high | 20.4 °C | 25.4 °C | 30.0 °C |
| Annual rainfall | 440 mm | 693 mm | 1,015 mm |
| Rainfall in the driest quarter | 47 mm | 122 mm | 190 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 264 research-grade observations of Crataegus orientalis 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 Reading one as the other would place a plant several zones too warm, so we do not publish a hardiness zone, because we do not have one.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 35 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 flabellata Heldr. ex Regel
- Crataegus laciniata subsp. pojarkovae (Kossych) Franco
- Crataegus odoratissima Hornem.
- Crataegus odoratissima (Andrews) G.Don
- Crataegus odoratissima G.Don
- Crataegus odoratissima Donn
- Crataegus orientalis Bosc ex DC.
- Crataegus orientalis var. connecta Diap.
- Crataegus orientalis var. flabellata Heldr. ex Boiss.
- Crataegus orientalis var. obtusata Browicz
- Crataegus orientalis var. sanguinea (Schrad.) Loudon
- Crataegus orientalis var. sanguinea Loudon
- Crataegus orientalis var. tournefortii (Griseb.) C.K.Schneid.
- Crataegus orientalis var. typica C.K.Schneid.
- Crataegus pojarkovae Kossych
- Crataegus pycnoloba var. parnassica Diap.
- Crataegus sanguinea Schrad.
- Crataegus schraderana Ledeb.
- Crataegus schraderiana Ledeb.
- Crataegus sericella Pojark.
- Crataegus szovitsii Pojark.
- Crataegus tanacetifolia Ledeb.
- Crataegus tanacetifolia var. orientalis (Pall. ex M.Bieb.) Regel
- Crataegus tanacetifolia var. taurica DC.
and 11 more.
Sourcesevery claim on this page
- World Flora Online Plant List. accepted name, authority, classification. CC0. Retrieved 2026-07-12.
- iNaturalist. photographs and flowering annotations, CC0 / CC BY / CC BY-SA only. per photograph. Retrieved 2026-06-27.
- 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.