Crataegus coccinea L.

Arborescent shrub or tree to 10 m, the top tending to be compact and conical; twigs glabrous, or villous when young; lvs glabrous, or often roughly short-hairy above at least when young, broad-based, mostly ovate to suborbicular, with 3–5 pairs of lateral lobes, mostly 3–7 × 2.5–6 cm; fls 1.3–2 cm wide, in glabrous or villous compound cymes; petiole 1/3–4/5 as long as the blade, often glandular; sep glandular-serrate, usually deeply so; fr 0.7–1.3 cm thick, bright red and often succulent, with 3–5 nutlets. N. Engl. and se. Can. to Del. and W.Va. (and in the mts. to N.C.), w. to Minn., Ill., and Ky. (C. confragosa; C. hillii; C. holmesiana; C. pedicellata; C. pennsylvanica; C. pringlei; C. putnamiana; C. tortilis)

Brush, woodland margins, fencerows, overgrown pastures; at elevations from 10-1,300 metres.

Plants can be grown from seed. The seed need cold treatment. Plants can also be grafted.