Crataegus phaenopyrum (L.fil.) Borkh.
Washington hawthorn, Washington hawthorn (EN)
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Summary
Crataegus phaenopyrum is a species of hawthorn commonly known as Washington hawthorn or Washington thorn. It is widely grown as an ornamental plant, and can reach 10 m in height. The small red berry-like fruit grow closely together in large clusters and are food for squirrels and birds. They have a mild flavor and can be eaten raw or cooked. More on Wikipedia ›
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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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At a glance
Also known as Cotoneaster cordatus (Mill.) Focke; Crataegus acerifolia J.Godr. et al.; Crataegus acerifolia J.Gordon, Dermer & R.Edmonds; Crataegus borealis Ashe; Crataegus corallina Pers. and 27 more.
Cultivation
Its year Rain rule: no season, 70% of the rain takes 8 months (March to September and November 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 (781 mm of 1097 mm) takes 8 months, March to September and November. Mean temperature moves 24.8 °C between the warmest and coldest month. Months are the habitat's, northern hemisphere; shifted six months for a southern-hemisphere collection: September to March and May.
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 1097 mm a year, wettest July at 109 mm, driest February at 70 mm (habitat calendar, northern hemisphere).
This species’ habitat figures, with their source.
1097 mm a year at the habitat, 781 mm of it March to September and November. Wettest month July at 109 mm, driest February at 70 mm. Across the envelope cells the year's total runs 924 mm to 1343 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: 11 to 40 mol/m²/day.
This species’ habitat figures, with their source.
Open sky over the habitat: 11 to 40 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 8, the highest 90th-percentile month 42).
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 -15.8 °C (1st-percentile habitat night, NASA POWER).
This species’ habitat figures, with their source.
Coldest: the 1st-percentile night over 44 years at the typical cell is -15.8 °C, the absolute minimum -28.9 °C, about 123 frost nights a year (NASA POWER daily minima). Warmest: the 99th-percentile day is 34.6 °C. Monthly means: coldest night -5.4 °C in January (across the envelope cells -8.3 °C to 1.5 °C), warmest day 28.0 °C in July (median year across the envelope cells, CHELSA). Cold floor: -15.8 °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.
Relative humidity at the habitat: 56 to 60% 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
Figures by month
| Jan | Feb | Mar | Apr | May | Jun | Jul | Aug | Sep | Oct | Nov | Dec | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Day °C | 3 / -1–9 | 5 / 1–11 | 10 / 6–16 | 16 / 13–21 | 21 / 19–25 | 26 / 23–29 | 28 / 26–31 | 27 / 25–31 | 24 / 21–27 | 17 / 15–21 | 11 / 8–15 | 5 / 2–10 |
| Night °C | -5 / -8–2 | -4 / -8–3 | 0 / -3–6 | 6 / 3–10 | 11 / 9–15 | 17 / 14–20 | 19 / 17–22 | 19 / 16–21 | 15 / 12–18 | 9 / 7–12 | 3 / 1–7 | -2 / -5–3 |
| Rain mm | 76 / 54–114 | 70 / 52–115 | 90 / 59–122 | 93 / 77–113 | 107 / 83–135 | 106 / 85–126 | 109 / 85–134 | 95 / 80–120 | 94 / 77–118 | 86 / 71–106 | 87 / 73–112 | 84 / 62–121 |
| DLI | 13 / 11–17 | 19 / 17–21 | 26 / 25–28 | 33 / 32–36 | 37 / 36–39 | 40 / 39–42 | 39 / 38–41 | 34 / 33–37 | 28 / 26–30 | 20 / 18–24 | 14 / 11–18 | 11 / 8–15 |
| RH % | 60 / 56–63 | 58 / 55–61 | 57 / 55–59 | 56 / 55–57 | 57 / 56–59 | 58 / 57–60 | 58 / 57–61 | 59 / 58–61 | 59 / 57–61 | 58 / 57–60 | 59 / 57–61 | 60 / 57–63 |
Each figure is the median across the 349 grid cells holding the 435 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 1003:1944 (39.825, -82.775). Over 44 years there: absolute minimum -28.9 °C, 1st-percentile night -15.8 °C, 99th-percentile day 34.6 °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 349 distinct grid cells holding the 435 in-range records; extremes and elevation at the typical cell 1003:1944 (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 40.00_-82.500, lapse-corrected -36 m at 6.5 °C/km. Elevation: ETOPO 2022, 254 m (cell mean).
Natural habitat
Photographs
Photographs: Schretzmann-Myers Theresa, CC BY-SA, via GBIF; sophiedenicolais, CC BY-SA, via GBIF; Ryan Sorrells, CC BY, iNaturalist via GBIF; Rebecca Turner, CC BY, iNaturalist via GBIF (3); Heidi Hellstern, CC BY-SA, iNaturalist via GBIF (2).
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 phaenopyrum, most cited first, from OpenAlex (CC0). A mention, not a cultivation source: nothing on this page is drawn from them.
Related
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.
Erigeron philadelphicus Daisy Fleabane
Phlox paniculata Fall Phlox
Amelanchier arborea Allegheny Serviceberry
Helianthus divaricatus Divergent Sunflower
Senna hebecarpa American senna
Echinacea purpurea Eastern Purple ConeflowerOther Crataegus 5 in the reference
Crataegus crus-galli Bush Hawthorn
Crataegus douglasii Columbia hawthorn
Crataegus laevigata English hawthorn
Crataegus mexicana Mexican hawthorn
Crataegus monogyna English Hawthorn History & registers
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