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Gaylussacia tomentosa

hairy dangleberry, hairytwig dangleberry, hairytwig huckleberry
Habit Plants 7.5–20 dm, forming small to extensive colonies (by rhizomes); branches spreading; twigs of current season pale green, densely hairy, sessile-glandular.
Leaves

petiole 2–3 mm;

blade greenish white, glaucescent abaxially, dull green to yellowish green adaxially, ovate to oblong, 2.5–6 × 2–3 cm, subcoriaceous, base cuneate, margins entire, apex rounded to obtuse, surfaces densely short-hairy (longer hairs to ca. 0.2 mm), sessile-glandular abaxially.
Inflorescences

drooping, 2–4-flowered, sometimes flowers solitary, bracteate, 1–2.5 cm, glabrous or pilose, sessile-glandular;

bracts early-deciduous, leaflike, 5–6 mm, shorter than pedicels, densely hairy.
Pedicels

8–15(–20) mm, glabrous, sessile-glandular;

bracteoles 1–2, 1–2.5 mm.
Flowers

sepals 5, 1–1.2 mm, glabrous or sparsely hairy, sessile-glandular;

petals 5, corolla greenish white, campanulate-conic, 3–5 mm, lobes deltate, ca. 1 mm;

filaments 0.5–1 mm, ciliate;

anthers included (tips barely exserted), 2.5 mm, thecae not divergent distally;

ovary glabrous.
Drupes

juicy, sweet, dark blue, sometimes black, rarely white, glaucous, 5–8 mm diam., glabrous.
Seeds

1.5 mm.

Gaylussacia tomentosa
Phenology Flowering late spring.
Habitat Moist to wet pine flatwoods and savannas, margins of cypress-gum depressions, margins of blackwater floodplains, streamhead ecotones, sometimes in dry soils
Elevation 0-100 m (0-300 ft)
Distribution
from FNA
AL; FL; GA; SC
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Discussion

Gaylussacia tomentosa is a coastal plain endemic that replaces G. frondosa from South Carolina south-ward. The leaves and twigs are covered with dense, tawny hairs, unlike the relatively sparse, white hairs of G. frondosa.

(Discussion copyrighted by Flora of North America; reprinted with permission.)
Source FNA vol. 8, p. 535.
Parent taxa Ericaceae > subfam. Vaccinioideae > Gaylussacia
Sibling taxa
G. baccata, G. bigeloviana, G. brachycera, G. dumosa, G. frondosa, G. mosieri, G. nana, G. orocola, G. ursina
Synonyms G. frondosa var. tomentosa, Decachaena tomentosa
Name authority (A. Gray) Pursh ex Small: Bull. Torrey Bot. Club 24: 443. 1897 ,
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