The common crabapple of the Ohio Valley, it is sometimes planted as an ornamental. Double-flowered varieties have a greater number of larger and deeper pink flowers. The fruit can be made into preserves and cider.

description A small tree with a short trunk and several stout branches forming broad, open crown.
Height: 30' (9 m).
Diameter: 1' (0.3 m).
Leaves: 2-4" (5-10 cm) long, 1 1/2" (4 cm) wide. Ovate; coarsely saw-toothed beyond middle; slightly lobed on young twigs; both blades and leafstalks with fine reddish hairs when young. Yellow-green above, pale beneath; turning yellow in autumn.
Bark: red-brown; fissured and scaly.
Twigs: red-brown; covered with gray hairs when young.
Flowers: nearly 1 1/2" (4 cm) wide; with 5 rounded white or pink petals; in clusters, on long stalks; in spring.
Fruit: 1-1 1/4" (2.5-3 cm) in diameter; like a small apple; yellow-green, long-stalked; maturing in late summer.

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