Midland Hawthorn | Plant Information

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Plant Data

Flowering Months:

JAN FEB MAR APR MAY JUN JUL AUG SEP OCT NOV DEC

Order:

Rosales

Family:

Rosaceae (Rose)

Also in this family:

Alpine Lady's-mantle, Barren Strawberry, Bearberry Cotoneaster, Bird Cherry, Blackthorn, Bramble, Bullate Cotoneaster, Burnet Rose, Cherry Laurel, Common Agrimony, Common Hawthorn, Common Lady's-mantle, Common Whitebeam, Crab Apple, Creeping Chinese Bramble, Creeping Cinquefoil, Cultivated Apple, Cultivated Pear, Dewberry, Dog Rose, Dropwort, Entire-leaved Cotoneaster, Firethorn, Fragrant Agrimony, Franchet's Cotoneaster, Garden Lady's-mantle, Goatsbeard Spiraea, Great Burnet, Greengage Plum, Hairless Lady's-mantle, Hollyberry Cotoneaster, Japanese Quince, Japanese Rose, Jew's Mallow, Marsh Cinquefoil, Meadowsweet, Mountain Ash, Pale Lady's-mantle, Parsley Piert, Portuguese Laurel, Purple-flowered Raspberry, Raspberry, Rock Whitebeam, Salad Burnet, Shrubby Cinquefoil, Silverweed, Southern Downy Rose, Sulphur Cinquefoil, Swedish Whitebeam, Tormentil, Wall Cotoneaster, Water Avens, Waterer's Cotoneaster, Wild Cherry, Wild Plum, Wild Strawberry, Willow-leaved Bridewort, Wood Avens

Type:

Deciduous shrub

Maximum Size:

8 metres tall

Habitats:

Hedgerows, woodland.

Flower:

White, 5 petals

Off white flowers but sometimes pink or red. The similar-looking Common Hawthorn flowers a couple of weeks later than the Midland Hawthorn (Crataegus monogyna). Pollinated by midges.

Fruit:

Red, oval berries called haws. 2 to 3-seeded (usually 2). The seeds ripen between September and November.

Leaves:

Deciduous shrub or tree. Shiny, deep 3-lobed leaves, up to 6cm in length. Thorny twigs. The leaves are more shallowly lobed than those of the much more frequently seen Common Hawthorn. The leaves of Midland Hawthorn are also much shinier. Common in England but less frequent in the west and far north. Fairly unusual elsewhere in the British Isles.

Aroma:

Fragrant.

Other Names:

Albespyne, Bird Eagles, English Hawthorn, May, Mayflower, Quickset Thorn, Quickthorn, Smooth Hawthorn, Whitethorn, Woodland Hawthorn.

Frequency (UK):

Common

Similar Species:

Common Hawthorn