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Crataegus douglasii Lindl.

Black hawthorn (EN), Columbia hawthorn, Douglas hawthorn, Douglas' hawthorn

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Summary

Crataegus douglasii is a North American species of hawthorn known by the common names black hawthorn and Douglas' thornapple. It is most abundant in the Pacific Northwest.

Text from Wikipedia, “Crataegus douglasii”, CC BY-SA 4.0, quoted as written. Kept separate from everything derived here.

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.

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Family
Rosaceae
Described by
Lindl.
Native to
Alaska, Alberta, British Columbia +10
Wild records
1485 in range· 793 open

At a glance

Warmest month
27°C
Aug, mean day; nights 14 °C (CHELSA)
Rain
682mm/yr
12 wet months · peak Dec 84 mm (CHELSA)
Light
7–46DLI
mol/m²/day, winter to summer, open sky (CHELSA shortwave)
In short condensed by rule from the cultivation cards · not written by a person
Rain rule: no season, 70% of the rain takes 8 months (October to March and May to June in the northern hemisphere). Habitat rain 682 mm a year, wettest December at 84 mm, driest August at 28 mm (habitat calendar, northern hemisphere). Open sky over the habitat: 7 to 46 mol/m²/day. Cold floor -22.9 °C (1st-percentile habitat night, NASA POWER).
Each sentence is one card's own one-line form, written by the same rule as the card (Its year, Rain, Light, Temperature); the note cannot say what a card does not. Months are given for the northern hemisphere (set your site in Settings to change this), and the habitat's own alongside. The cards · the figures.

Also known as Anthomeles douglasii (Lindl.) M.Roem.; Crataegus brevispina Douglas; Crataegus brevispina Douglas ex Steud.; Crataegus columbiana Howell; Crataegus columbiana var. columbiana and 14 more.

Cultivation

Its year Rain rule: no season, 70% of the rain takes 8 months (October to March and May to June in the northern hemisphere).

This species’ habitat figures, and what two fixed rules read from them.

The rain rule reads no season: 70% of the year's rain (531 mm of 682 mm) takes 8 months, October to March and May to June. Mean temperature moves 21.5 °C between the warmest and coldest month. Months are the habitat's, northern hemisphere; shifted six months for a southern-hemisphere collection: April to September and November to December.

Read from the median year of CHELSA monthly rainfall and mean temperature across the envelope cells: 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 gives a season to reverse. A reading of the curves, not an observation of the plant.

Rain Habitat rain 682 mm a year, wettest December at 84 mm, driest August at 28 mm (habitat calendar, northern hemisphere).

This species’ habitat figures, with their source.

682 mm a year at the habitat, 531 mm of it October to March and May to June. Wettest month December at 84 mm, driest August at 28 mm. Across the envelope cells the year's total runs 393 mm to 1612 mm (10th to 90th percentile of each cell's own year) (median year across the envelope cells, CHELSA; habitat calendar, northern hemisphere).

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

Light Open sky over the habitat: 7 to 46 mol/m²/day.

This species’ habitat figures, with their source.

Open sky over the habitat: 7 to 46 mol/m²/day across the year (daily light integral, median year across the envelope cells, CHELSA; the lowest 10th-percentile month across the cells is 5, the highest 90th-percentile month 50).

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.

Warmth and air Cold floor -22.9 °C (1st-percentile habitat night, NASA POWER).

This species’ habitat figures, with their source.

Temperature

Coldest: the 1st-percentile night over 44 years at the typical cell is -22.9 °C, the absolute minimum -38.5 °C, about 161 frost nights a year (NASA POWER daily minima). Warmest: the 99th-percentile day is 34.3 °C. Monthly means: coldest night -5.6 °C in December (across the envelope cells -10.4 °C to 1.8 °C), warmest day 26.5 °C in August (median year across the envelope cells, CHELSA). Cold floor: -22.9 °C, which is the 1st-percentile night over 44 years at the typical cell (NASA POWER).

NASA POWER daily minima and maxima 1981–2024 at the typical cell, lapse-corrected to its elevation; CHELSA monthly means, median year across the envelope cells, CHELSA. The cold floor is the figure named in its sentence. Not a measured survival limit for any plant in a pot.

Humidity

Relative humidity at the habitat: 51 to 65% across the year (monthly means, median year across the envelope cells, CHELSA). A figure about the air, saying nothing about how the plant takes water.

CHELSA relative humidity, median year across the envelope cells.

The figures the cards read from are in Climate below, and where they came from in Natural habitat.

Climate across the habitat

Habitat climate through the yearMean day from 1 °C in Dec to 27 °C in Aug; mean night from -6 °C in Dec to 14 °C in Aug. The cold quarter, Nov to Jan, is the three months around the coldest night. 682 mm of rain a year, most in Dec. The bands show the 10th to 90th percentile across 995 habitat cells. Over 44 years at the typical cell the absolute minimum was -38.5 °C and the 99th-percentile day 34.3 °C; neither is dated to a month. Beneath: daily light integral and relative humidity through the year, each on its own scale.-40°-20°20°40°frost34.3° 99th-percentile day (undated)-38.5° lowest night in 44 yrs (undated)°C · day and nightcold quarter050100150200250300mm rainDLI 7–46RH 51–65 %JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDec
day night rain 10th–90th percentile across 995 habitat cells cold quarter: the three months around the coldest night extremes over 44 years at the typical cell, marked at the edge: undated DLI, mol/m²/dayRH %each on its own scale
Figures by month
JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDec
Day °C2 / -3–75 / -1–99 / 4–1213 / 8–1618 / 14–2022 / 18–2526 / 22–3027 / 22–3022 / 18–2514 / 11–186 / 3–101 / -3–7
Night °C-5 / -11–2-4 / -10–2-1 / -6–42 / -2–66 / 3–910 / 7–1214 / 11–1614 / 11–1610 / 6–135 / 1–9-1 / -6–5-6 / -10–2
Rain mm73 / 31–23456 / 24–16658 / 27–16054 / 28–11564 / 38–10055 / 27–9829 / 11–6628 / 10–7140 / 18–9258 / 28–15983 / 36–25384 / 36–247
DLI9 / 6–1316 / 12–2024 / 19–2934 / 29–3840 / 35–4443 / 38–4846 / 40–5040 / 34–4429 / 25–3418 / 14–239 / 7–147 / 5–11
RH %65 / 60–6862 / 59–6559 / 56–6356 / 53–6155 / 51–6054 / 49–6051 / 45–6051 / 45–6053 / 48–6158 / 53–6463 / 59–6865 / 61–68

Each figure is the median across the 995 grid cells holding the 1458 in-range records, with the 10th–90th percentile span across those cells after the slash where it differs. Extremes and elevation were read at the typical cell 846:1317 (47.675, -114.125). Over 44 years there: absolute minimum -38.5 °C, 1st-percentile night -22.9 °C, 99th-percentile day 34.3 °C. Normals: CHELSA V2.1 1981–2010 climatology, 0.05° cells (each the mean of ~36 1 km pixels). Envelope: median and 10th–90th percentile of each month across the 995 distinct grid cells holding the 1458 in-range records; extremes and elevation at the typical cell 846:1317 (its coldest month's mean night nearest the median across cells); its position is the cell centre. Extremes: NASA POWER (MERRA-2) daily 1981–2024, cell 47.50_-114.375, lapse-corrected -271 m at 6.5 °C/km. Elevation: ETOPO 2022, 959 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 every in-range record's cell, not at the marker.
Openly licensed records inside the range, framed on where they fall.
NativeAlaska, Alberta, British Columbia, Saskatchewan, Ontario, Idaho, Montana, Oregon, Washington, Minnesota, Wisconsin, Michigan, California· introduced: Finland, Baltic States
Kew's description“tree” · “temperate”· quoted from WCVP, RBG Kew (CC BY 4.0); not derived here
Map marker48.477, -123.403 · in the densest population, 1212 records (82% of those in range)
Evidence usedThe map marker and the climate envelope rest on all 1485 georeferenced records inside the native range; the map shows only the 793 openly licensed ones, which alone would put the marker 84 km away. 79 records outside the range (gardens, roadsides, misidentifications) ignored. 27 in-range records are placed to worse than 10 km and stay on the map but off the climate.
The map markerthe map marker: the openly licensed record nearest the middle of the densest 1° population inside the densest 4° block of the 1485 in-range records; it decides nothing.

Photographs

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Photographs: no rights reserved · CC0; (c) Étienne Léveillé-Bourret, some rights reserved (CC BY) (7).

Photographs: iNaturalist did not answer when this page was built; what is shown came from the sources that did.

Papers naming this species

Works whose title or abstract names Crataegus douglasii, most cited first, from OpenAlex (CC0). A mention, not a cultivation source: nothing on this page is drawn from them.

Plant mediated green synthesis and antibacterial activity of silver nanoparticles using Crataegus douglasii fruit extract
Mansour Ghaffari‐Moghaddam, Robabeh Hadi‐Dabanlou (2013) · Journal of Industrial and Engineering Chemistry
Effects of Late Season Cattle Grazing on Riparian Plant Communities
J. Boone Kauffman, William C. Krueger, Martin Vávra (1983) · Journal of Range Management
Population genetic structure of diploid sexual and polyploid apomictic hawthorns (Crataegus; Rosaceae) in the Pacific Northwest
Eugenia Yuk Ying Lo, Saša Stefanović, Timothy A. Dickinson (2009) · Molecular Ecology
Influence of Radio Collars on Survival of Sharp-Tailed Grouse
Jeffrey S. Marks, Victoria Saab Marks (1987) · Journal of Wildlife Management
The Geographic Distribution of Rhagoletis pomonella (Diptera: Tephritidae) in the Western United States: Introduced Species or Native Population?
Glen R. Hood, Wee L. Yee, Robert B. Goughnour, Sheina B. Sim (2013) · Annals of the Entomological Society of America
Geographical parthenogenesis in Pacific Northwest hawthorns (Crataegus; Rosaceae)
Eugenia Yuk Ying Lo, Saša Stefanović, Timothy A. Dickinson (2012) · Botany
Mule Deer and Elk Food Habits on the National Bison Range
Melvin S. Morris, John E. Schwartz (1957) · Journal of Wildlife Management
Abundance of Apple Maggot,Rhagoletis pomonella, Across Different Areas in Central Washington, with Special Reference to Black-Fruited Hawthorns
Wee L. Yee, Michael Klaus, Dong H. Cha, Charles E. Linn (2012) · Journal of insect science/Journal of Insect Science

Similar habitat climate the 6 species whose habitat climate is nearest this one's: mean day and night, month by month, and rain on a log scale, in calendar order, so a habitat with the same seasons six months out is far, not near. Nothing else counts: not range, not family.

Other Crataegus 5 in the reference

History & registers

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Every upstream is recorded as having answered, reported nothing, or refused. Only “nothing to report” is ever shown as an absence. Records came from 95 datasets via GBIF.org; each carries its own licence.