Plate 1 figs. a–h · 8 separate observations
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Native range 17 botanical countries
| Region | TDWG code | Continent |
|---|---|---|
| Altay | ALT | ASIA-TEMPERATE |
| Amur | AMU | |
| China North-Central | CHN | |
| Chita | CTA | |
| Inner Mongolia | CHI | |
| Irkutsk | IRK | |
| Kazakhstan | KAZ | |
| Kirgizstan | KGZ | |
| Krasnoyarsk | KRA | |
| Manchuria | CHM | |
| Mongolia | MON | |
| Tuva | TVA | |
| West Siberia | WSB | |
| Xinjiang | CHX | |
| Yakutiya | YAK | |
| Central European Russia | RUC | EUROPE |
| East European Russia | RUE |
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 1,876 observations
| Condition | 5th percentile | Median | 95th percentile |
|---|---|---|---|
| Coldest month, mean daily low | -26.3 °C | -19.1 °C | -11.7 °C |
| Warmest month, mean daily high | 21.5 °C | 23.1 °C | 24.9 °C |
| Annual rainfall | 344 mm | 489 mm | 746 mm |
| Rainfall in the driest quarter | 16 mm | 59 mm | 112 mm |
It is found where winters are arctic. This is not care advice and it is not a forecast. It is a measurement: we sampled the climate at every one of the 1,876 research-grade observations of Crataegus sanguinea 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 Reading one as the other would place a plant several zones too warm, so we do not publish a hardiness zone, because we do not have one.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 15 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.
- Anthomeles sanguinea (Pall.) M.Roem.
- Crataegus altaica Lodd.
- Crataegus cosansasi K.Koch
- Crataegus purpurea (Poir.) Bosc
- Crataegus sanguinea f. microphylla E.L.Wolf
- Crataegus sanguinea unranked microphylla Schrad.
- Crataegus sanguinea var. genuina Maxim.
- Crataegus sanguinea var. sanguinea
- Crataegus sanguinea var. songorica Regel
- Crataegus sanguinea var. typica Regel
- Crataegus spinosissima G.Lodd.
- Mespilus cosansasi K.Koch
- Mespilus purpurea Poir.
- Mespilus sanguinea (Pall.) Spach
- Mespilus sanguinea var. chlorocarpa (Lenn‚ & K.Koch) K.Koch
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.