Hawthorn (Crataegus monogyna) (Nox)

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Scientific name: Crataegus monogyna Jacq.
Photo: Hawthorn Tree
Hawthorn Tree

Common name:
Hawthorn

Status:
Regionally Controlled in the Wimmera, Port Phillip & Westernport (East and West), Goulburn Broken, North East, West Gippsland and East Gippsland CMAs.
Restricted in the Mallee, North Central, Glenelg-Hopkins and Corangamite CMAs.

Habitat:
Humid and subhumid temperate regions, growing well in most soils and colonising shallow stoney sites where annual rainfall is over 600 mm (Parsons and Cuthbertson 1992). Infestations are usually associated with its use in hedges from where it forms thickets along roadsides and forest margins and colonises poorly managed pastures (Parsons and Cuthbertson 1992). Hawthorn is a weed of lowland grassland and grassy woodland, dry sclerophyll forest and woodland, damp sclerophyll forest and riparian vegetation (Carr et al 1992).

Related Links

Weed Identification Note for Hawthorn - on the Weeds Australia website (external link). Information is provided on the generalised current distribution in Australia as well as other information such as origin, distinguishing features, dispersal etc.

Photo: Hawthorn Flower
Hawthorn Flowers (November) Photo: Hawthorn fruit (February)
Hawthorn fruit (February)

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Scientific name:	Crataegus monogyna Jacq.	Hawthorn Tree
Common name:	Hawthorn
Status:	Regionally Controlled in the Wimmera, Port Phillip & Westernport (East and West), Goulburn Broken, North East, West Gippsland and East Gippsland CMAs. Restricted in the Mallee, North Central, Glenelg-Hopkins and Corangamite CMAs.
Habitat:	Humid and subhumid temperate regions, growing well in most soils and colonising shallow stoney sites where annual rainfall is over 600 mm (Parsons and Cuthbertson 1992). Infestations are usually associated with its use in hedges from where it forms thickets along roadsides and forest margins and colonises poorly managed pastures (Parsons and Cuthbertson 1992). Hawthorn is a weed of lowland grassland and grassy woodland, dry sclerophyll forest and woodland, damp sclerophyll forest and riparian vegetation (Carr et al 1992).