Credit
Sharon A. Yiesla
Sharon A. Yiesla
Flat clusters of small, creamy white flowers in spring; flowers have an unpleasant scent; bright red fruit late summer and early autumn; spring foliage is very downy; fall color is yellow to bronze.
Full sun; moist, well-drained soil, but tolerant of drought; pH adaptable.
This species has fewer thorns than Cockspur Hawthorn.
Broad rounded with distinctly horizontal branches
United States (and Illinois)