Crataegus rhipidophyllaGand.

Calycine Hawthorn

WFO wfo-0000989083 Accepted WFO 2026-06 8 photographs CC BY

Plate 1 figs. a–h · 8 separate observations

Crataegus rhipidophylla, photographed by Oleksii Vasyliuk
fig. a Oleksii Vasyliuk, CC BY 4.0 / 2021-05-22 / obs. 130814512
Crataegus rhipidophylla, photographed by Jens-Christian Svenning
fig. b Jens-Christian Svenning, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 129419010
Crataegus rhipidophylla, photographed by Jens-Christian Svenning
fig. c Jens-Christian Svenning, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 93630585
Crataegus rhipidophylla, photographed by Jason Grant
fig. d Jason Grant, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 25159868
Crataegus rhipidophylla, photographed by Ljaž
fig. e Ljaž, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 190817739
Crataegus rhipidophylla, photographed by Dmitriy Bochkov
fig. f Dmitriy Bochkov, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 91695861
Crataegus rhipidophylla, photographed by Maxim Shashkov
fig. g Maxim Shashkov, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 56541054
Crataegus rhipidophylla, photographed by Oleksii Vasyliuk
fig. h Oleksii Vasyliuk, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 134349870

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Native range 26 botanical countries

Regions where Crataegus rhipidophylla is native: Transcaucasus, Türkiye, Albania, Austria, Baltic States, Belarus, Belgium, Bulgaria, Central European Russia, Czechia-Slovakia, Denmark, Finland, France, Germany, Greece, Hungary, Krym, Norway, NW. Balkan Pen., Poland, Romania, South European Russia, Sweden, Switzerland, Türkiye-in-Europe, Ukraine TranscaucasusTürkiyeAlbaniaAustriaBaltic StatesBelarusBelgiumBulgariaCentral European RussiaCzechia-SlovakiaDenmarkFinlandFranceGermanyGreeceHungaryKrymNorwayNW. Balkan Pen.PolandRomaniaSouth European RussiaSwedenSwitzerlandTürkiye-in-EuropeUkraine
Native distribution of Crataegus rhipidophylla, 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
Albania ALB EUROPE
Austria AUT
Baltic States BLT
Belarus BLR
Belgium BGM
Bulgaria BUL
Central European Russia RUC
Czechia-Slovakia CZE
Denmark DEN
Finland FIN
France FRA
Germany GER
Greece GRC
Hungary HUN
Krym KRY
Norway NOR
NW. Balkan Pen. YUG
Poland POL
Romania ROM
South European Russia RUS
Sweden SWE
Switzerland SWI
Türkiye-in-Europe TUE
Ukraine UKR
Transcaucasus TCS ASIA-TEMPERATE
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 423 observations

Condition 5th percentile Median 95th percentile
Coldest month, mean daily low -9.9 °C -6.2 °C -3.1 °C
Warmest month, mean daily high 22.0 °C 24.2 °C 26.8 °C
Annual rainfall 530 mm 631 mm 922 mm
Rainfall in the driest quarter 89 mm 107 mm 161 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 423 research-grade observations of Crataegus rhipidophylla 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 67 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 appressidens Pojark.
  • Crataegus browicziana K.I.Chr.
  • Crataegus calycina Franco
  • Crataegus calycina subsp. curvisepala (Lindm.) Franco
  • Crataegus curvisepala Lindm.
  • Crataegus curvisepala f. submontana Hrabětová
  • Crataegus curvisepala subsp. carpatica Hrabětová
  • Crataegus curvisepala subsp. carstica Hrabětová
  • Crataegus curvisepala subsp. cremnicensis Hrabětová
  • Crataegus curvisepala subsp. lindmanii (Hrabětová) Byatt
  • Crataegus curvisepala subsp. zlatnensis Petauer
  • Crataegus curvisepala var. quadriloba Petauer
  • Crataegus curvisepala var. rigidula Hrabětová
  • Crataegus intermedia Fuss
  • Crataegus laciniata Steven
  • Crataegus laciniata Steven ex Besser
  • Crataegus lampocarpa Lindm.
  • Crataegus lindmanii Hrabětová
  • Crataegus lindmanii var. extrasepala Ker.-Nagy, Baranec & D.Bartha
  • Crataegus lindmanii var. jodalii Ker.-Nagy
  • Crataegus lindmanii var. microsepala Ker.-Nagy, Baranec & D.Bartha
  • Crataegus lindmanii var. ronnigeri (K.Malý) Ker.-Nagy
  • Crataegus microphylla Gand.
  • Crataegus monogyna f. rosiformis (Janka) Hayek

and 43 more.

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.