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Scarlet Hawthorn

Crataegus coccinea

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Wildlife study photograph from iNaturalist. — (c) smpbiologist-agray, some rights reserved (CC BY-NC)

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Where it is recorded

Records by month in Ontario.

United States	820
Canada	315
Ontario	306
New York	202
Pennsylvania	135
Michigan	104
Ohio	66
West Virginia	66
Massachusetts	35
Vermont	34

Counts show where people looked, not only where it lives.

Traits

Group and habits

Medicinal useListed as having medicinal use by a harvested source. This is not medical advice.Kew World Checklist of Useful Plant Species
Material useListed as being used for materials such as wood, fiber, resin, gum, or oil.Kew World Checklist of Useful Plant Species

Edibility, toxicity and medicinal traits are records from datasets, not advice. Never eat, handle or use a wild species on the strength of an app.

Classification

Kingdom	Plants · Plantae
Phylum	Vascular Plants · Tracheophyta
Class	Dicots · Magnoliopsida
Order	Roses, Elms, Figs, and Allies · Rosales
Family	rose family · Rosaceae
Genus	hawthorns · Crataegus

Sources

Names, taxonomy and observation counts: www.inaturalist.org
Photos and recordings: the creator and source are on each one.
Traits: Kew World Checklist of Useful Plant Species (CC BY 4.0)
How much to rely on each source

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