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Crataegus apiifolia (Marshall) Rössig

Parsley hawthorn · doubtful

Rosaceae · Illinois, Missouri +13

Cited as Kew's World Checklist cites it, Crataegus apiifolia (Marshall) Rössig: GBIF's backbone key for this page carries the name with another author, Borkh.

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Habitat figures
Cold floor (1 night in 100)
-5.5°C
Record low -18.0 °C in 44 years, at a typical spot in the range NASA POWER
Warmest month, mean daily high
33°C
Jul at the habitat CHELSA
Rain a year (median across the range)
1,389mm
12 months of 25 mm or more in the median year CHELSA
Open-sky light
16–40DLI
Lowest to highest month (DLI) CHELSA
The year in your months, northern hemisphere
  1. Jan
  2. Feb
  3. Mar
  4. Apr
  5. May
  6. Jun
  7. Jul
  8. Aug
  9. Sep
  10. Oct
  11. Nov
  12. Dec
Rain spread: 70% of the median year's rain takes 9 months, so no short rainy season. rain rule, CHELSA
Northern hemisphere unless you set your site. The chart is in the habitat's months.

Summary

Crataegus apiifolia is an illegitimate name for two species of hawthorns:

Quoted from Wikipedia, "Crataegus apiifolia", CC BY-SA 4.0.

About the genus · Crataegus

Crataegus, commonly called hawthorn, quickthorn, thornapple, May-tree, whitethorn, Mayflower or hawberry, is a genus of several hundred species of shrubs and trees in the family Rosaceae, native to temperate regions of the Northern Hemisphere in Europe, Asia, North Africa and North America. The name "hawthorn" was originally applied to the species native to northern Europe, especially the common hawthorn C. monogyna, and the unmodified name is often so used in Britain and Ireland. The name is now also applied to the entire genus and to the related Asian genus Rhaphiolepis.

Quoted from Wikipedia, "Crataegus", CC BY-SA 4.0.

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Seasons

The rain rule reads no short rainy season: 70% of the median year's rain (1,085 mm of 1,396 mm) takes 9 months, October to March and May to July. Mean temperature moves 18.5 °C between the warmest and coldest month. Months are the habitat's, northern hemisphere; shifted six months for a southern-hemisphere collection: November to January and April to September.

Rain

1,396 mm in the median year at the habitat, 1,085 mm of it October to March and May to July. Wettest month June at 131 mm, driest month August at 103 mm. Across the grid cells of the range the year's total runs 1,193 mm to 1,637 mm, the 10th to 90th percentile of each cell's own year. The median of the cells' own yearly totals, 1,389 mm, is the year's rain at the top of the page; the 1,396 mm here is the median year's, the twelve monthly medians added, which the rain rule reads. Habitat calendar, northern hemisphere; median year across the grid cells of the range, CHELSA.

Light

Open sky over the habitat: 16 to 40 mol/m²/day across the year (daily light integral, median year across the grid cells of the range, CHELSA; the lowest 10th-percentile month across the cells is 14, the highest 90th-percentile month 41).

Warmth and air
Temperature

Coldest: the 1st-percentile night over 44 years at a typical spot in the range is -5.5 °C, the absolute minimum -18.0 °C, 1,379 frost nights in 44 years, 31.3 a year (NASA POWER daily minima). Warmest: the 99th-percentile day is 40.1 °C. Monthly means: the coldest month's mean nightly low 5.0 °C in January (across the grid cells of the range 0.9 °C to 7.7 °C), the warmest month's mean daily high 32.5 °C in July (median year across the grid cells of the range, CHELSA). Cold floor: -5.5 °C, which is the 1st-percentile night over 44 years at a typical spot in the range (NASA POWER).

Humidity

Relative humidity at the habitat: 57 to 61% across the year (monthly means, median year across the grid cells of the range, CHELSA). A figure about the air, saying nothing about how the plant takes water.

How this section is made

Each card states this species' habitat figures with their sources, and what two fixed rules read from them; nothing here says what the plant does, wants or tolerates. The rules · the terms.

Seasons. Read from the median year of CHELSA monthly rainfall and mean temperature across the grid cells of the range: the rain rule takes the smallest set of months carrying 70% of the rain and calls it winter when its mean is more than half a degree below the year's, summer when more than that above, and neither in between; the temperature rule, used only under 120 mm, names the cooler six months when they are at least a degree cooler than the other six. Months are shifted for the other hemisphere only where the temperature curve moves 4 °C or more and the habitat lies 10° or more from the equator. A reading of the curves, not an observation of the plant.

Rain. CHELSA monthly precipitation, median year across the grid cells of the range. The rain that falls where the species is recorded; nothing about how the plant takes water.

Light. CHELSA shortwave radiation at each envelope cell, a daily-mean flux taken to a daily total and converted at 2.07 mol of PAR per MJ. The sky over the habitat, measured; what reaches a plant under a rock, a shrub or a shade cloth is not.

Temperature. NASA POWER daily minima and maxima over 44 years at a typical spot in the range, lapse-corrected +4 m to its elevation; CHELSA monthly means, median year across the grid cells of the range. The cold floor is the 1st-percentile night named in its sentence. Not a measured survival limit for any plant in a pot.

Humidity. CHELSA relative humidity, median year across the grid cells of the range.

Climate across the habitat

Habitat months, northern hemisphere

Habitat climate of Crataegus apiifolia through the yearWarmest month July, mean daily high 33 °C; coldest month January, mean nightly low 5.0 °C; 1,396 mm of rain in the median year (the twelve monthly medians added). Medians across the range, from CHELSA; the extremes at the edge from NASA POWER. Habitat months, northern hemisphere.-20°-10°0°10°20°30°40°50°frost40.1° 99th-percentile day, NASA POWER-18.0° lowest night in 44 years, NASA POWER°C · day and nightcold quarter050100150200mm rainDLI 16–40RH 57–61%JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDec
day night rain medians and 10th–90th percentile across 442 habitat cells, CHELSA cold quarter: the three months around the coldest month's mean nightly low extremes over 44 years at a typical spot in the range, from NASA POWER, marked at the edge, in no month DLI, mol/m²/dayRH %each on its own scale
Figures by month
JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDec
Day °C14 / 10–1717 / 13–1920 / 17–2225 / 22–2629 / 26–3031 / 30–3233 / 31–3432 / 31–3430 / 28–3125 / 22–2720 / 16–2215 / 11–18
Night °C5 / 1–87 / 3–910 / 7–1214 / 11–1618 / 16–2022 / 20–2324 / 22–2423 / 22–2421 / 18–2215 / 12–1711 / 7–136 / 3–9
Rain mm108 / 87–143111 / 81–148125 / 88–149104 / 76–131123 / 79–147131 / 103–183118 / 88–177103 / 74–178104 / 85–134119 / 82–144123 / 80–141127 / 87–154
DLI18 / 16–1922 / 21–2429 / 28–3136 / 35–3839 / 37–4139 / 39–4040 / 38–4137 / 34–3832 / 30–3326 / 24–2719 / 17–2116 / 14–17
RH %59 / 57–6058 / 57–6057 / 56–5957 / 55–5959 / 57–6160 / 58–6261 / 58–6360 / 57–6359 / 57–6158 / 56–5958 / 57–5959 / 58–60
How this section is made
Each figure is the median across the 442 grid cells holding the 684 in-range records, with the 10th–90th percentile span across those cells after the slash where it differs. A dash is a month one or more of those cells has no figure for in the grid (a variable CHELSA does not carry there), so no median is taken rather than one over fewer cells. Extremes and elevation were read at a typical spot in the range, cell 1163:1764 (31.825, -91.775). Over 44 years there: absolute minimum -18.0 °C, 1st-percentile night -5.5 °C, 99th-percentile day 40.1 °C. Normals: CHELSA V2.1 1981–2010 climatology, 0.05° cells (each the mean of ~36 1 km pixels). Across the range: median and 10th–90th percentile of each month across the 442 distinct grid cells holding 684 of the 684 in-range records; extremes and elevation at the typical cell 1163:1764 (its coldest month's mean nightly low nearest the median across cells); its position is the cell centre. Extremes: NASA POWER (MERRA-2) daily 1981–2024, cell 32.00_-91.875, lapse-corrected +4 m at 6.5 °C/km. Elevation: ETOPO 2022, 37 m (cell mean).

Natural habitat

Native range as published by WCVP; the marker is where the records are densest and decides nothing: the climate was read across the cells of the in-range records placed well enough to read one, not at the marker.
Openly licensed records inside the range, framed on where they fall.
NativeIllinois, Missouri, Oklahoma, Texas, Alabama, Arkansas, Florida, Georgia, Kentucky, Louisiana, Mississippi, North Carolina, South Carolina, Tennessee, Virginia · regions are the level-3 units of the World Geographical Scheme for Recording Plant Distributions, as Kew's World Checklist records ranges, some under historical names such as Yugoslavia or Czechoslovakia (how).
Map marker30.26, -95.474 · in the densest population, 264 records (35% of those in range)
Kew's description“tree” · “temperate” · quoted from WCVP, RBG Kew (CC BY 4.0); not derived here
Evidence usedThe map marker rests on all 765 georeferenced records inside the native range; the climate across the range on the 684 of them placed to within 10 km; the map shows only the 110 openly licensed ones, which alone would put the marker 139 km away. 14 records outside the WCVP native range not used. 81 in-range records are placed to worse than 10 km, or with no stated accuracy (admitted only as a person's observation to three decimals), and stay on the map but off the climate.
Other GBIF keysRecords also from GBIF's key 3014468 (Crataegus marshallii Eggl.): Kew's file holds it as Crataegus marshallii Eggl. (illegitimate under Crataegus apiifolia (Marshall) Rössig); 900 records, from GBIF's search API on the day of the build.
How this section is made
The map marker: the openly licensed record nearest the middle of the densest 1° population of the 765 in-range records; it decides nothing. Records outside the native range, living specimens and records marked introduced are not used; which records count.

Photographs

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Photographs: Caroline Kane, CC BY, iNaturalist via GBIF (6).

Similar habitat climate The 6 nearest by mean daily high, mean nightly low and rain, month by month. How.

Smilax maritima Smilax maritima Smilacaceae Photo: CC BY, Leila DasherEupatorium semiserratum Eupatorium semiserratum Smallflower thoroughwort Photo: CC BY, Anne ParkerBoltonia diffusa Boltonia diffusa Smallhead doll's daisy Photo: CC0, author not statedAmsonia rigida Amsonia rigida Pond bluestar Photo: CC BY, Joseph AubertForestiera ligustrina Forestiera ligustrina Southern Glade Forestiera Photo: CC0, author not statedRhynchospora corniculata Rhynchospora corniculata Short-bristle hornedrush Photo: CC BY, Ryan Sorrells

Other Crataegus 80 in the reference

Crataegus aestivalis Crataegus aestivalis May hawthorn Photo: CC BY, Pam KleinsasserCrataegus ambigua Crataegus ambigua Russian Hawthorn Photo: CC BY, Jared ShormaCrataegus aprica Crataegus aprica Sunny hawthorn Photo: CC BY, Kristály Cravens-LiszakCrataegus azarolus Crataegus azarolus Azarole Photo: CC BY, Louis AuregliaCrataegus berberifolia Crataegus berberifolia Barberry hawthorn Photo: CC BY, sblumenCrataegus calpodendron Crataegus calpodendron Pear hawthorn Photo: CC BY, Ryan Sorrells Crataegus × canescens Rosaceae Crataegus chlorocarpa Crataegus chlorocarpa Rosaceae Photo: CC BY, Alexander DubyninCrataegus chlorosarca Crataegus chlorosarca Rosaceae Photo: CC BY, Tatyana PetrenkoCrataegus chrysocarpa Crataegus chrysocarpa Fireberry hawthorn Photo: CC BY, Charlie Pavlisich Crataegus chungtienensis Rosaceae Crataegus coccinea Crataegus coccinea Scarlet hawthorn Photo: CC0, author not stated all 81 ›

Names & registers

Also known as Crataegus marshallii; Crataegus apiifolia subsp. major; Crataegus apiifolia var. minor; Crataegus oxyacantha; Crataegus oxyacantha var. apiifolia and 4 more. (GBIF Backbone)

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The record

Family
Rosaceae
Described by
(Marshall) Rössig
Native to
Illinois, Missouri, Oklahoma +12
Wild records
765 in range · 110 open

Every figure here is derived from public data by a stated rule and names its source; nothing about this species is written for its page by a person or by AI, apart from the marked, credited quotations. How →

Where this page came from built 2026-10-22
GBIF species record gbif.species answeredasked 2026-10-22GBIF's key 8377666 is Crataegus apiifolia Borkh.; Kew accepts Crataegus apiifolia (Marshall) Rössig, and the name is cited as Kew accepts it; its synonyms and common names are read from GBIF's Crataegus apiifolia (Marshall) Michx. (3013473), which GBIF files under Crataegus marshallii Eggl. (3014468) too
GBIF synonyms gbif.synonyms answeredasked 2026-10-229 read from GBIF's Crataegus apiifolia (Marshall) Michx. (3013473), which GBIF files under Crataegus marshallii Eggl. (3014468)
GBIF common names gbif.vernacular answeredasked 2026-10-22names fetched 2026-10-22
WCVP native range wcvp.distribution answeredas of 2026-06-04
GBIF occurrence records gbif.occurrences answeredasked 2026-10-22no record under GBIF's key 8377666; 900 records of GBIF's key 3014468, Crataegus marshallii Eggl. (Kew's file holds it as Crataegus marshallii Eggl. (illegitimate under Crataegus apiifolia (Marshall) Rössig)): GBIF occurrence search API; 36 records within 1 km of a botanic garden, herbarium or zoo left out (35 at a botanic garden or arboretum, 1 at a zoo; Wikidata's list)
Habitat climate climate answeredasked 2026-10-22
Daily extremes (NASA POWER) climate.extremes answeredasked 2026-10-22NASA POWER (MERRA-2) daily 1981–2024, cell 32.00_-91.875, lapse-corrected +4 m at 6.5 °C/km
Wikidata wikidata nothing to reportasked 2026-10-22not taken: the item labelled Crataegus apiifolia, Q5182540, carries GBIF key 3013473, GBIF's record of Crataegus apiifolia (Marshall) Michx., which GBIF files under Crataegus marshallii Eggl.; IPNI and POWO linked by Kew's number for Crataegus apiifolia (Marshall) Rössig (no item's number)
Wikipedia wikipedia answeredasked 2026-10-22
iNaturalist taxon inat.taxon not asked
iNaturalist photographs, wild inat.photos.wild not asked
iNaturalist photographs, cultivated inat.photos.cultivated not asked
GBIF media gbif.media answeredasked 2026-10-22read from the page's key and its other keys: 180 from GBIF's key 3014468
OpenAlex papers openalex not askednot yet asked for this reference; a later fill takes the papers from OpenAlex's snapshot

Every source is recorded as having answered, reported nothing, refused, failed, not been asked, or answered twice where one answer is taken (“not taken: two items answered”), and, for a source asked when this page was built, when: the figures are as the source held them that day; a source read from a file (Kew's World Checklist, a GBIF download) says "as of" the file's day instead; a row carried from an earlier build of the page names that build instead. Only “nothing to report” is ever shown as an absence. Records came from 5 datasets via GBIF.org; each carries its own licence.

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