Vaccinium boreale |
Vaccinium myrsinites |
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bleuet boréal, northern blueberry, sweet hurts |
Florida evergreen blueberry, shiny blueberry |
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Habit | Plants forming small, dense colonies, 0.1–0.9 dm, (superficially rhizomatous); twigs green, (delicate), angled, (intricately branched), hairy in lines. | Plants forming extensive open colonies, 1.4–10 dm; twigs bright green, ± angled, hairy in lines. |
Leaves | deciduous; blade bright green, narrowly elliptic, 8–21 × 2–6 mm, membranous, margins sharply, uniformly serrate, surfaces usually glabrous, eglandular abaxially. |
persistent for 1+ years; blade green, elliptic, 5–9 × 3–5 mm, coriaceous, margins ± serrulate, surfaces glandular abaxially. |
Flowers | calyx green, glaucous, glabrous (sometimes ciliate); corolla white to greenish white, cylindric, 3–4 mm; filaments ciliate. |
calyx pinkish white, becoming greenish, glabrous; corolla white to pink or red, ± urceolate, 4–8 mm; filaments ciliate along margins. |
Berries | blue, glaucous, 3–5 mm diam., glabrous. |
black, 7–9 mm diam., glabrous. |
Seeds | 10–30, ca. 1.1 mm. |
4–13, ca. 1 mm. |
2n | = 24. |
= 24, 48. |
Vaccinium boreale |
Vaccinium myrsinites |
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Phenology | Flowering late spring–early summer. | Flowering winter–spring. |
Habitat | Headlands, open, rocky uplands, alpine heaths and meadows, forest-tundra. 0-2000 m | Flatwoods, sand-pine scrub, oak-palmetto scrub, scrubby flatwoods, rosemary balds |
Elevation | 0-30 m (0-100 ft) | |
Distribution |
ME; NH; NY; VT; NB; NL; NS; QC
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AL; FL; GA; SC
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Source | FNA vol. 8, p. 528. | FNA vol. 8, p. 527. |
Parent taxa | Ericaceae > subfam. Vaccinioideae > Vaccinium > sect. Cyanococcus | Ericaceae > subfam. Vaccinioideae > Vaccinium > sect. Cyanococcus |
Sibling taxa | ||
Synonyms | Cyanococcus myrsinites, V. nitidum | |
Name authority | I. V. Hall & Aalders: Amer. J. Bot. 48: 200. 1961 , | Lamarck: in J. Lamarck et al., Encycl. 1: 73. (1783) |
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