Sweet Crabapple
Malus coronaria
Sweet crabapple perfumes the late-spring woods with intensely fragrant pink-and-white bloom, followed by hard green crabapples used for jelly and eaten by wildlife. A broad, often thorny native orchard tree.
- Family
- Rosaceae
- Type
- tree
- Lifespan
- perennial
- Height
- 15–25 ft
- Spacing
- 15–25 ft apart
- Light
- sun
- Soil moisture
- moist, dry
- Soil pH
- neutral, acidic
- Bloom
- April, May
- Bloom colors
- pink, white
- Wildlife value
- pollinators, songbirds, butterflies, larval host, mammals
- Caterpillar hosts
- ~308 butterfly & moth species
- Landscape uses
- specimen, hedge or screen
- Native states
- AL, GA, IL, IN, KY, MD, MI, MO, NC, NY, OH, PA, TN, VA, WV