Shrubs or trees, ?usually multi-stemmed?, 50–70 dm. Stems: twigs: new growth golden brown, appressed-pubescent, 1-year old brown to grayish brown, 2-years old gray-brown, older ± pale gray; thorns on twigs absent or numerous, recurved (if longer), 1-year old shiny, dark brown, older turning gray, slender, 2.5–6 cm. Leaves: petiole length 25–30% blade, ?narrowly winged most of length?, finely pubescent, eglandular; blade ± rhombic or rhombic-narrowly ovate, sometimes suborbiculate, 3–12 cm, thin, base cuneate, lobes 0 or 5–8 per side, sinuses shallow, lobe apex subacute to acute, margins serrate except in proximal 1/4, veins 8 per side, apex usually acute, abaxial surface persistently appressed-pubescent, especially on veins, adaxial scabrate young, glabrous mature. Inflorescences 12–25-flowered; branches densely appressed-pubescent; bracteoles linear, margins stipitate-glandular. Flowers 13–15(–22) mm diam.; hypanthium pubescent; sepals narrowly triangular, length not recorded, margins nearly entire or shallowly glandular-serrate, abaxially pubescent, adaxial pubescence not recorded; stamens 20, anthers usually red, pink, or purple, sometimes white, ?small?; styles 2 or 3. Pomes orange-red to scarlet, ellipsoid to sometimes orbicular, (5–)7–9(–10) mm diam., pubescent; ?flesh soft?; sepals reflexed or spreading; pyrenes 2 or 3, sides pitted. 2n = 34, 51.
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A shrub with many stems. It grows 3-4 m tall. The trunk can be 15 cm across. The leaves are 5-8 cm long. They are hairy and dull yellowish-green. There are few thorns. If they occur they are 3-4 cm long and stout. They are glossy and deep brown. The flowers are 12 mm wide with 5 white petals. The fruit are very small. They are 4-8 mm across. They are pear shaped. They are shiny orange-red.
Much like no. 6 [Crataegus succulenta Schrad.], but more prominently hairy and with larger lvs; twigs villous or tomentose when young; lvs 5–9 × 4–8 cm, short-villous above and usually also beneath; petiole 1–1.5 cm; infl ± villous or tomentose. S. Ont. and N.Y. to Ga. and Ala., w. to Minn., Kans., and Tex. (C. fontanesiana; C. whitakeri)
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