Gaylussacia baccata |
Gaylussacia orocola |
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black huckleberry, crackleberry |
Blue Ridge huckleberry |
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Habit | Plants 3–10(–15) dm, forming small to extensive colonies; branches spreading; twigs of current season pale green, glabrous. | Plants 4–10 dm, forming small colonies (by rhizomes); branches ascending; twigs of current season grayish brown, puberulent and sparsely stipitate-glandular, becoming glabrate. |
Leaves | petiole 1–2(–4) mm; blade pale green abaxially, green to yellowish green adaxially, ovate to oblong, (2–)2.5–5 × 1–2.5 cm, membranous to subcoriaceous, base cuneate, margins entire, apex rounded to obtuse, surfaces glabrous, sometimes puberulent on major veins, sessile-glandular. |
petiole 0.5–1.5 mm; blade light green abaxially, dark green adaxially, oblanceolate to obovate, 1.9–2.9 × 0.9–1.2 cm, subcoriaceous, base cuneate, margins entire, (scattered stipitate-glandular-hairy and ciliate, 6–8 cilia per mm), apex subacute, mucronate, surfaces persistently stipitate-glandular-hairy and sessile-glandular (often sparsely stellate-eglandular-hairy abaxially). |
Inflorescences | drooping, 3–7-flowered, bracteate, 0.5–1.5 cm, glabrous; bracts early-deciduous, not leaflike (linear-lanceolate), 2–4 mm, shorter than pedicels, glabrous, sessile-glandular. |
erect or arching, 4–8-flowered, bracteate, 2–5 cm, hairy and stipitate-glandular; bracts persistent, leaflike, 2–5 mm, expanding to 5–10 mm, longer than pedicels, densely stipitate-glandular-hairy (hairs 0.3–0.5 mm). |
Pedicels | 3–6 mm, glabrous, sessile-glandular; bracteoles 1(–2), 1–2 mm. |
2–3 mm, stipitate-glandular-hairy; bracteoles 1–2, 2–5 mm. |
Flowers | sepals 5, 0.7–1 mm, glabrous, sessile-glandular; petals 4–5, corolla orange to red, campanulate-conic, 4–5 mm, lobes 0.5–0.7 mm; filaments 2 mm, glabrous; anthers included, 2.2–2.5 mm, thecae divergent distally; ovary glabrous. |
sepals 5, 2 mm, densely stipitate-glandular-hairy (hairs 0.3–0.5 mm); petals 5, corolla white, campanulate, 5.5–6.5 mm (averaging 6 mm), lobes triangular, 1–1.5 mm; filaments 0.3–0.5 mm, sparsely hairy; anthers included, 2.5–3.2 mm (averaging 2.8 mm), thecae divergent distally; ovary glandular-hairy (hairs 0.3–0.5 mm). |
Drupes | juicy, sweet, glossy black (sometimes blue, rarely white), 6–7 mm diam., glabrous. |
juicy, insipid, black, 6–8 mm diam., sparsely glandular-hairy. |
Seeds | ca. 2 mm. |
1.5–1.8 mm. |
2n | = 24. |
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Gaylussacia baccata |
Gaylussacia orocola |
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Phenology | Flowering late spring. | Flowering late spring–early summer. |
Habitat | Sandy or rocky soil in deciduous, pine, or mixed woods, roadsides, pastures, and utility rights-of-way, wet, acidic bogs, fens | Peaty montane seepage bogs |
Elevation | 0-800 m (0-2600 ft) | 500-1800 m (1600-5900 ft) |
Distribution |
AL; AR; CT; DC; DE; GA; IA; IL; IN; KY; MA; MD; ME; MI; MN; MO; NC; NH; NJ; NY; OH; PA; RI; SC; TN; VA; VT; WI; WV; MB; NB; NF; NS; ON; PE; QC
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NC |
Discussion | Of conservation concern. Gaylussacia orocola is known from five counties in western North Carolina, where it inhabits montane bogs in the Blue Ridge Mountains with other rare or disjunct taxa, such as Sarracenia jonesii, S. purpurea var. montana, and Myrica gale. (Discussion copyrighted by Flora of North America; reprinted with permission.) |
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Source | FNA vol. 8, p. 534. | FNA vol. 8, p. 533. |
Parent taxa | Ericaceae > subfam. Vaccinioideae > Gaylussacia | Ericaceae > subfam. Vaccinioideae > Gaylussacia |
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Synonyms | Andromeda baccata, Decachaena baccata, G. baccata var. glaucocarpa | Lasiococcus orocola |
Name authority | (Wangenheim) K. Koch: Dendrologie 2(1): 93. 1872 , | (Small) Camp: Bull. Torrey Bot. Club 62: 132. 1935 , |
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