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|accepted_name=Crataegus communis
|accepted_authority=Beadle
|publications={{Treatment/Publication
|title=Biltmore Bot. Stud.
|place=1: 58. 1902
|year=1902
}}
|special_status={{Treatment/ID/Special_status
|code=C
|label=Conservation concern
}}{{Treatment/ID/Special_status
|code=E
|label=Endemic
}}
|basionyms=
|synonyms=
|hierarchy=Rosaceae;Rosaceae subfam. Amygdaloideae;Rosaceae tribe Gillenieae;Crataegus;Crataegus sect. Coccineae;Crataegus (sect. Coccineae) ser. Intricatae;Crataegus communis
|hierarchy_nav=<div class="higher-taxa"><div class="higher-taxon"><small>family</small>[[Rosaceae]]</div><div class="higher-taxon"><small>subfamily</small>[[Rosaceae subfam. Amygdaloideae]]</div><div class="higher-taxon"><small>tribe</small>[[Rosaceae tribe Gillenieae]]</div><div class="higher-taxon"><small>genus</small>[[Crataegus]]</div><div class="higher-taxon"><small>section</small>[[Crataegus sect. Coccineae]]</div><div class="higher-taxon"><small>series</small>[[Crataegus (sect. Coccineae) ser. Intricatae]]</div><div class="higher-taxon"><small>species</small>[[Crataegus communis]]</div></div>
|volume=Volume 9
|mention_page=page 587, 589
|treatment_page=page 590
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--><span class="statement" id="st-undefined" data-properties=""><b>Shrubs,</b> 15–20 dm. <b>Stems</b>: twigs: new growth reddish, glabrous, 1-year old dull reddish brown, 2-years old dark gray, older paler gray; thorns on twigs: course not recorded, 2-years old dark, slender, short. <b>Leaves</b>: petiole 1 mm wide, length 30–50% blade, pubescence not recorded, glandular; blade broadly elliptic, 3–8 cm, thin to subcoriaceous, base cuneate, lobes 0, or 2 or 3 per side, obscure or reduced to apiculi, lobe apex subobtuse, margins strongly serrate, teeth gland-tipped, especially toward base, veins 4 or 5 per side, apex acute, surfaces hairy young, glabrescent. <b>Inflorescences</b> 3–8-flowered; branches glabrous; bracteole margins short-stipitate-glandular. <b>Flowers</b> 13–18 mm diam.; hypanthium glabrous; sepals 5–7 mm, margins glandular-serrate, abaxially glabrous; stamens 10, anthers rose; styles 2–4(or 5). <b>Pomes</b> yellow-green to dull orange, orange-red, or red, suborbicular to short-oblong or obovoid, 9–12 mm diam., glabrous; sepals on collar, patent-reflexed; pyrenes 2–4(or 5).</span><!--

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|phenology=Flowering Apr; fruiting Sep–Oct.
|habitat=Brush, successional fields, open woodlands
|elevation=100–400 m
|distribution=Ala.;N.C.;Tenn.
|discussion=<p>Of conservation concern.</p><!--
--><p><i>Crataegus communis</i> is uncommon and often wrongly annotated as <i>C. straminea</i>. The species has broadly elliptic leaves with small, very obscure or lacking, subobtuse lobes.</p>
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name=Crataegus communis
|author=
|authority=Beadle
|rank=species
|parent rank=series
|synonyms=
|basionyms=
|family=Rosaceae
|phenology=Flowering Apr; fruiting Sep–Oct.
|habitat=Brush, successional fields, open woodlands
|elevation=100–400 m
|distribution=Ala.;N.C.;Tenn.
|reference=None
|publication title=Biltmore Bot. Stud.
|publication year=1902
|special status=Conservation concern;Endemic
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|subfamily=Rosaceae subfam. Amygdaloideae
|tribe=Rosaceae tribe Gillenieae
|genus=Crataegus
|section=Crataegus sect. Coccineae
|series=Crataegus (sect. Coccineae) ser. Intricatae
|species=Crataegus communis
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