Vaccinium cespitosum |
Vaccinium arboreum |
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airelle gazonnante, dwarf bilberry, dwarf blueberry, dwarf huckleberry |
farkleberry, sparkleberry |
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Habit | Plants forming dense colonies, 0.3–6 dm, superficially rhizomatous; twigs yellow-green, reddish green, or reddish brown, terete to somewhat angled, finely puberulent or, rarely, glabrous. | Shrubs or trees, trunks to 35 cm diam. at breast height; twigs of current season reddish green, glabrous, glaucous, or glandular-hairy, not verrucose. |
Leaf | blades green, usually oblanceolate, sometimes obovate or narrowly elliptic, 10–30 × 3–12 mm, margins usually serrulate from apex to at least mid blade, surfaces usually glandular abaxially, usually glabrous adaxially. |
blades pale green, glaucous, obovate to oblong, 22–40 × 12–20 mm, coriaceous, surfaces glabrous or glandular-hairy abaxially, glabrous and lustrous adaxially. |
Inflorescence | bracts ± persistent. |
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Pedicels | slender, 0.8–1.2 cm. |
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Flowers | calyx pale green, lobes vestigial, glabrous; corolla white, white with pink striping, or pink, cylindric-urceolate to globose, 4–7 × 3–5 mm, thin, glaucous; filaments glabrous. |
calyx 21–29 × 7–13 mm; corolla white, 3–5 mm; filaments ciliate. |
Berries | usually blue, glaucous, rarely dull black, 5–9 mm diam. |
shiny black, 7–9 mm diam. 2n = 24. |
Seeds | ca. 1 mm. |
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2n | = 24. |
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Vaccinium cespitosum |
Vaccinium arboreum |
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Phenology | Flowering late spring-mid summer. | Flowering spring. |
Habitat | Open, usually dry habitats, from lowland to subalpine areas | Sandy or rocky habitats, usually xeric woodlands |
Elevation | 0-4500 m (0-14800 ft) | 0-800 m (0-2600 ft) |
Distribution |
AK; CA; CO; ID; ME; MI; MN; MT; NH; NM; NY; OR; VT; WA; WI; WY; AB; BC; MB; NB; NL; NS; NT; NU; ON; QC; SK; YT; Mexico (Chihuahua, Durango, Hidalgo); Central America (Guatemala)
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AL; AR; FL; GA; IL; IN; KS; KY; LA; MO; MS; NC; OK; SC; TN; TX; VA
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Discussion | Vaccinium arboreum is rare and local in Illinois, Indiana, Kansas, Kentucky, and Virginia. (Discussion copyrighted by Flora of North America; reprinted with permission.) |
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Source | FNA vol. 8, p. 524. | FNA vol. 8, p. 525. |
Parent taxa | Ericaceae > subfam. Vaccinioideae > Vaccinium > sect. Myrtillus | Ericaceae > subfam. Vaccinioideae > Vaccinium > sect. Batodendron |
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Synonyms | V. arbuscula, V. caespitosum var. arbuscula, V. caespitosum var. paludicola, V. geminiflorum, V. nivictum, V. paludicola | Batodendron arboreum, V. arboreum var. glaucescens |
Name authority | Michaux: Fl. Bor.-Amer. 1: 234. 1803 , | Marshall: Arbust. Amer., 157. 1785 , |
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