General Plant Information (Edit)
Plant Habit: Tree
Sun Requirements: Full Sun
Water Preferences: Wet
Wet Mesic
Mesic
Soil pH Preferences: Slightly acid (6.1 – 6.5)
Neutral (6.6 – 7.3)
Slightly alkaline (7.4 – 7.8)
Minimum cold hardiness: Zone 4b -31.7 °C (-25 °F) to -28.9 °C (-20 °F)
Maximum recommended zone: Zone 7b
Plant Height: 20 to 35 feet
Plant Spread: 30 to 50 feet
Leaves: Good fall color
Deciduous
Fruit: Showy
Fruiting Time: Late summer or early fall
Fall
Flowers: Showy
Flower Color: White
Flower Time: Late spring or early summer
Underground structures: Taproot
Suitable Locations: Patio/Ornamental/Small Tree
Wildlife Attractant: Bees
Birds
Resistances: Drought tolerant
Pollinators: Midges
Bees
Various insects
Miscellaneous: Tolerates poor soil
Monoecious

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Common names
  • Dotted hawthorn
  • White thorn
Botanical names
  • Accepted: Crataegus punctata
  • Synonym: Mespilus punctata

Photo Gallery
Location: Botanical Garden Copenhagen
Date: 2016-12-01
Location: Morton Arboretum in Lisle, Illinois
Date: 2015-06-19
planted maturing tree

Date: c. 1892
illustration by C. E. Faxon from Sargent's 'Silva of North Americ
Location: Morton Arboretum in Lisle, Illinois
Date: 2015-06-19
the foliage and immature green fruits
Comments:
  • Posted by ILPARW (southeast Pennsylvania - Zone 6b) on Jan 2, 2018 5:18 PM concerning plant:
    Dotted Hawthorn has a good sized native range from southwest Quebec & southern Maine down to northern Georgia to southeast Missouri up eastern Iowa into southeast Minnesota to all around Lake Michigan into southeast Ontario in lowland wet mesic to upland dry sites. It grows about 1 foot/year and lives 50 to 100 years. Narrow oval leaves not lobed with sharp teeth above middle of leaf; turn orange to red in autumn. White flat-topped clusters about 2 to 3 inches wide in late May into early June. It bears one of the larger hawthorn fruit about 3/4 inches in diameter in drooping clusters of dull orange to red with conspicuous white dots, in mid-August into October. it bears thorns about 2 inches long, sometimes compound ones. Cedar Rust can be hard on this species. I've never recognized one in the wild; I've only seen one specimen at the arboretum. It is not grown by conventional nurseries for landscapes. Some native plant nurseries may have some.

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