tribe
Maleae
Maleae
Field notes
Children 24 of 40
- Hawthorns 56 native
- Serviceberries 15 native
- Mountain Ashes 5 native
- Apples and Crabapples 4 native
- Chokeberries 2 native
- Toyon 1 native
- Osteomeles 1 native
- Juneberry 1 native
- Flowering Quinces
- Whitebeam
- Stranvaesia
- Whitebeams
- Whitebeam
- Pourthiaea
- Lindleya
- Whitebeams
- Pears
- Rhaphiolepis
- Malacomeles
- Firethorns
- Pseudocydonia
- × Arsorbus
- Eriolobus
- Cormus
Range
Greener is more native, amber more introduced; paler is less certain. How this was decided
Top native Maleae All
Native to the US, ranked by caterpillars, then bees and other hosts, food, flowers and shelter.
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Sweet Crabapple
Malus coronaria
caterpillars
199
hosts
6
food
32
flowers
70
shelter
1
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Prairie Crab Apple
Malus ioensis
caterpillars
197
hosts
4
food
32
flowers
58
shelter
1
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Southern Crabapple
Malus angustifolia
caterpillars
187
hosts
4
food
33
flowers
55
shelter
1
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Black Hawthorn
Crataegus douglasii
caterpillars
139
hosts
8
food
36
flowers
18
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Fireberry Hawthorn
Crataegus chrysocarpa
caterpillars
135
hosts
7
food
30
flowers
15
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Fleshy Hawthorn
Crataegus succulenta
caterpillars
127
hosts
7
food
29
flowers
13
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Scarlet Hawthorn
Crataegus coccinea
caterpillars
125
hosts
7
food
28
flowers
46
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Downy Hawthorn
Crataegus mollis
caterpillars
125
hosts
6
food
29
flowers
63
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Cockspur Hawthorn
Crataegus crus-galli
caterpillars
125
hosts
6
food
29
flowers
14
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Big-fruit Hawthorn
Crataegus macrosperma
caterpillars
125
hosts
6
food
28
flowers
11
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Dotted Hawthorn
Crataegus punctata
caterpillars
124
hosts
6
food
28
flowers
12
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Washington Hawthorn
Crataegus phaenopyrum
caterpillars
123
hosts
6
food
29
flowers
14
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Fanleaf Hawthorn
Crataegus flabellata
caterpillars
123
hosts
6
food
29
flowers
11
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Waxy-fruited Hawthorn
Crataegus pruinosa
caterpillars
123
hosts
6
food
29
flowers
11
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Hairy Cockspurthorn
Crataegus submollis
caterpillars
123
hosts
6
food
27
flowers
11