Crataegus pinnatifida (Chinese Hawthorn)

Plate 1 figs. a–h · 8 separate observations

Crataegus pinnatifida, photographed by Nina Filippova — fig. a Nina Filippova, CC BY 4.0 / 2021-08-27 / obs. 153454449

Crataegus pinnatifida, photographed by Oleg Kosterin — fig. b Oleg Kosterin, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 90973254

Crataegus pinnatifida, photographed by Николай Соболев — fig. c Николай Соболев, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 108737946

Crataegus pinnatifida, photographed by Repina Tatyana — fig. d Repina Tatyana, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 72229871

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The specimen a real sheet, in a real collection

Herbarium: The New York Botanical Garden
Accession: 4768849
Filed as: Crataegus pinnatifida Bunge
Det. by: not recorded on this sheet
Collected: C. Y. Chiao 1930-07-13
Origin: CN
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 8 botanical countries

Native distribution of Crataegus pinnatifida, 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.

Region	TDWG code	Continent
Amur	AMU	ASIA-TEMPERATE
China North-Central	CHN
China Southeast	CHS
Inner Mongolia	CHI
Khabarovsk	KHA
Korea	KOR
Manchuria	CHM
Primorye	PRM

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 263 observations

Condition	5th percentile	Median	95th percentile
Coldest month, mean daily low	-22.7 °C	-15.2 °C	-6.1 °C
Warmest month, mean daily high	22.4 °C	25.4 °C	31.8 °C
Annual rainfall	533 mm	689 mm	1,335 mm
Rainfall in the driest quarter	10 mm	30 mm	69 mm

It is found where winters are severely cold. This is not care advice and it is not a forecast. It is a measurement: we sampled the climate at every one of the 263 research-grade observations of Crataegus pinnatifida 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 30 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 bretschneideri C.K.Schneid.
Crataegus brettschneideri C.K.Schneid.
Crataegus coreana H.Lév.
Crataegus dsungarica Dippel
Crataegus korolkowii Regel ex C.K.Schneid.
Crataegus oxyacantha var. pinnatifida (Bunge) Regel
Crataegus philippii Koehne
Crataegus pinnatifida f. betulifolia Nakai ex T.Kawamoto
Crataegus pinnatifida f. bracteata Nakai
Crataegus pinnatifida f. geholensis (C.K.Schneid.) Kitag.
Crataegus pinnatifida f. glabra Skvortsov
Crataegus pinnatifida f. major (N.E.Br.) W.Lee
Crataegus pinnatifida f. partita (Nakai ex Chung) M.Kim
Crataegus pinnatifida f. psilosa (C.K.Schneid.) Kitag.
Crataegus pinnatifida f. pubescens Skvortsov
Crataegus pinnatifida var. geholensis C.K.Schneid.
Crataegus pinnatifida var. korolkowii (Regel ex C.K.Schneid.) Y.Yabe
Crataegus pinnatifida var. major N.E.Br.
Crataegus pinnatifida var. partita Nakai ex Chung
Crataegus pinnatifida var. pilosa Skvortsov
Crataegus pinnatifida var. psilosa C.K.Schneid.
Crataegus pinnatifida var. songarica Dippel
Crataegus pinnatifida var. typica C.K.Schneid.
Crataegus tatarica C.K.Schneid.

and 6 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.
Wikidata. common name (P1843), joined on the World Flora Online identifier (P7715). CC0. Retrieved 2026-07-13.
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.