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Flowering: late April to late May

Habitat and ecology: Infrequent in woodland edges, clearings, and along fencerows. This species is most often found in the eastern and northern part of the Chicago Region, especially near Lake Michigan.

Occurence in the Chicago region: native

Etymology: Malus is the classic name for apple. Coronaria refers to garlands.

Author: The Morton Arboretum

Found throughout the state in various kinds of soil of varying amounts of moisture. It generally grows in colonies, mostly in open woodland, clearings, and wood pastures and along roadsides and fences. The genus Malus of the "Trees of Indiana" was written by W. W. Eggleston. A careful restudy of my specimens convinces me that those using a local flora of this kind will be best served by regarding this species as polymorphic in many of its parts. Specimens can be found that show wide differences but these can be connected by intermediates. The synonymy of the species is involved and is omitted unless it applies to names used in "Trees of Indiana" by Deam. [Deam's treatment includes variety dasycalyx, a form in which the outer surface of the calyx is tomentose at flowering time.] Rehder says this variety also has the leaves paler beneath than the [full] species [Malus coronaria]. It occurs throughout the state with the species.

Tall shrub or low tree with thorny branches, rarely to 10 m; lvs ovate to triangular-ovate to sometimes broadly lanceolate, acute or acuminate, mostly with rounded to cordate base, 4-10 cm, glabrous beneath or sparsely villous when young, serrate., or commonly with a few triangular lobes near the widest part; hypanthium and cal glabrous or sparsely villous; fls at first pink, fading white; anthers pink or salmon-color; fr subglobose, greenish, 2-3 cm; 2n=68. Woods and thickets; N.Y. to Mich., Ill., and occasionally Mo., s. irregularly to n. Ga., n. Ala., and ne. Ark. (Malus bracteata; M. coronaria; M. glaucescens; M. lancifolia) Hybrids of this with no. 5 [Pyrus angustifolia Aiton] or with P. malus are called P. ذlatycarpa L. H. Bailey.

Gleason, Henry A. & Cronquist, Arthur J. 1991. Manual of vascular plants of northeastern United States and adjacent Canada. lxxv + 910 pp.

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