• Taxonomic hierarchy:

• Species hybrid: Crataegus monogyna x laevigata = C. x media (hybrid hawthorn)
• Genus: Crataegus (hawthorns)
• Family: ROSACEAE (roses and fruit trees)
• Order: ROSALES (roses, elms, nettles, hops, buckthorns and figs)
• Subclass: EU-DICOTS (dicotyledonous flowering plants)
• Class: MAGNOLIOPSIDA (flowering plants)
• Phylum: TRACHEOPHYTA (vascular plants)
• Kingdom: PLANTAE (plants)
• Domain: Eukaryota (eukaryotes)
• Life: BIOTA (living things)

• Crataegus monogyna x laevigata = C. x media is also a member of:

• Broadleaved shrubs - broadleaved shrubs (via Crataegus)
• Broadleaved trees - broadleaved, frondose or deciduous trees (via Crataegus)
• Trees with bark of low pH - acid-barked trees (via Crataegus)
• Endomycorrhizal broadleaved trees and shrubs - endomycorrhizal or endotrophic mycorrhizal broadleaved trees and shrubs (via Crataegus)
• Endomycorrhizal trees and shrubs - endomycorrhizal or endotrophic mycorrhizal trees and shrubs (via Endomycorrhizal broadleaved trees and shrubs)
• Broadleaved trees and shrubs - broadleaved trees and shrubs (via Endomycorrhizal broadleaved trees and shrubs)
• Xylophytes - broadleaved trees, shrubs and woody climbers (via Broadleaved trees and shrubs)
• Endomycorrhizal plants - plants that form endomycorrhiza (via Endomycorrhizal trees and shrubs)
• Trees and shrubs - trees and shrubs, including conifers (via Endomycorrhizal trees and shrubs)
• Trees - broadleaved and coniferous trees (via Trees with bark of low pH)
• Trees, shrubs, woody and climbing plants - trees, shrubs, subshrubs and climbers, including conifers (via Broadleaved trees)

Notes: Half a dozen trees growing fairly closely which shared the following characters: leaf lobes broad (like laevigata) and single excentric or curved style.