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§1 Plant

Malus coronaria (L.) Mill.

vernacular sweet crab apple — species · Rosaceae


USDA
MACO5
GBIF
3001166
Rank
species
sweet crab apple (Malus coronaria)
Platephotograph · William Van HemessenCC BY-NC source · iNaturalist ↗

§2Habit & range

Habit and range

Growth habit
Shrub, Tree
Duration
Perennial
Group
Dicot
Family
Rosaceae Juss.
Genus
Malus
§2a

Native status, by region

  • CAN Canada Native
  • L48 Lower 48 States Native
§2b

County-level range

· 329 counties across 20 states/territories
Legend Native · 329 Introduced · 0 Both · 0 Hover a county for detail.

§3Cultivation

No cultivation specs.

USDA has not characterised this taxon. Roughly four out of five plants in the database lack the detailed cultivation record present here — typically because they have not been the focus of NRCS Plant Materials work. Range and distribution data are unaffected.


§4Counties, by state

Recorded in 329 counties across 20 states/territories.

Alabama view state ↗ 6 N
Arkansas view state ↗ 3 N
Delaware view state ↗ 1 N
District of Columbia view state ↗ 1 N
Georgia view state ↗ 8 N
Illinois view state ↗ 31 N
Indiana view state ↗ 51 N
Kansas view state ↗ 2 N
Kentucky view state ↗ 40 N
Michigan view state ↗ 24 N
Mississippi view state ↗ 1 N
New Jersey view state ↗ 12 N
New York view state ↗ 23 N
North Carolina view state ↗ 8 N
Pennsylvania view state ↗ 51 N
South Carolina view state ↗ 2 N
Tennessee view state ↗ 13 N
Vermont view state ↗ 1 N
Virginia view state ↗ 23 N
West Virginia view state ↗ 28 N

§5Sources & provenance

USDA PLANTS

Symbol, taxonomy, distribution, cultivation specs, native status. Public domain.

plants.usda.gov/MACO5 ↗

GBIF Backbone

Canonical taxonomic identity, synonym resolution, cross-refs. CC0.

gbif.org/species/3001166 ↗

Record version

Cached and built locally. Source version on this record:

usda-plants-mt-2026-05-26

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