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Crataegus douglasii, photographed by an iNaturalist contributor
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Crataegus douglasii

Black hawthorn · also Douglas' thornapple, Columbia hawthorn, Douglas hawthorn

960
trees mapped
0.01%
of all named trees
9
cities
4.0 in
median trunk (10 cm, 892 measured)

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Crataegus douglasii, commonly known as black hawthorn, is a temperate North American tree species. It is most abundant in the Pacific Northwest and can be found from Alaska to the northern and western United States and Canada.

Where it grows

Trees in each city's inventory, with the share of that city's named trees this species accounts for.

  1. Helsinki · Finland
    393—5.9 in
  2. Vancouver · Canada
    288—4.0 in
  3. Victoria · Canada
    131—1.6 in
  4. Denver · United States
    90—3.0 in
  5. New Westminster · Canada
    402.9 yr0.4 in
  6. Copenhagen · Denmark
    78.8 yr—
  7. Boston · United States
    523 yr3.4 in
  8. Los Angeles · United States
    3—7.5 in
  9. Paris · France
    3——

Native range

Terrestrial ecoregions where this species is native. Trees in the dataset mostly stand well outside it.

Temperate Conifer Forests

  • Alberta-British Columbia foothills forests
  • British Columbia coastal conifer forests
  • Central British Columbia Mountain forests
  • Central Pacific Northwest coastal forests
  • Central-Southern Cascades Forests
  • Eastern Cascades forests
  • North Cascades conifer forests
  • Northern California coastal forests

Temperate Grasslands, Savannas & Shrublands

  • California Central Valley grasslands
  • Central US forest-grasslands transition
  • Central Tallgrass prairie
  • Montana Valley and Foothill grasslands
  • Western shortgrass prairie

Temperate Broadleaf & Mixed Forests

  • Eastern Canadian Forest-Boreal transition
  • Eastern Great Lakes lowland forests
  • Western Great Lakes forests

Tundra

  • Alaska-St. Elias Range tundra
  • Brooks-British Range tundra

Other Crataegus in the catalogue

29 of the top 2,000 species are in this genus.

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