Low-branching. Taprooted. Grows faster when young, slowing with age. NCSU says partial shade possible but reduces flowering. Descriptions of flower fragrance include "tolerable" and "may be unpleasant". Bloom period is brief.
Takes pruning well. USDA and White Oak outnumber NCSU on the question of sandy soil tolerance (I never consider UFL for soil texture questions because they list almost everything as being tolerant of clay, loam, and sand, which is obviously unhelpful and unrealistic -- you can verify this by pulling up their Flash-based northern tree selector, filtering for clay or sand, and seeing how close the numbers are to no filters at all).
Resistant to cedar-hawthorn rust. One of least susceptible hawthorns to fireblight.
'Princeton Sentry' is fastigiate and nearly thornless. 'Westwood I' (Washington Lustre) and 'Washington Tree' are quite similar to each other, more upright and with fewer thorns than the species.
Sources: Sunset, White Oak, NCSU, UFL, Stoecklein, UConn, USDA, Dirr/Warren.
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