What tree is this?

[ericb2400]

Picture of top and bottom of a small flowering branch
it is growing on the bank of our creek

Thanks for looking 

 

[ericb2400]

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[RandyT]

Looks like hawthorne

 

[/pine]

It looks like it may be one of the Alders...(birch family) very common on creek and river banks...

 

[59 Sons]

Im on the wrong side of the country... but I would have guessed June Berry, Service Berry, Huckle Berry. Something in that family.

 

[rekees4300]

Native Trees of Kentucky | Department of Horticulture

 

[Pharm]

I'm with RandyT - i think it's a hawthorn. Apparently there is a lot of variation as a group and can be difficult to identify sometimes.

Green Hawthorn

 

[uglyboywith11fingers]

Looks like hawthorne

+2
can't quite see clearly in the pictures, but my hawthornes look just like that & full of 1.5 to 2" thorns.

 

[Sonny580]

We always called them "red-haw" around here!!---If one of the thorns touch your skin it will hurt and swell for days on end!---later the flowers turn into red fruit that goats love to eat! thanks; sonny580

 

[ericb2400]

I think Hawthorne is out because it does not have thorns. Thanks for the ideas, keep them comming.

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[DFB]

Looks like a Flowering Dogwood to me.


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