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creeping blueberry

Habit Plants extensively mat-forming (often by layering), with erect branches from lateral buds, rooting and/or swelling into woody burls at nodes; twigs of current year reddish green, terete, finely hairy, not verrucose.
Leaf

blades dark green, elliptic to obovate, (10–)12–15(–39) × (4–)5–7(–24) mm, coriaceous, margins ± entire, surfaces glabrescent.

Pedicels

0.1–0.3 cm.

Flowers

calyx lobes distinct;

corolla usually white, 3–5 mm;

filaments ciliate.

Berries

black, 6–8 mm diam., insipid.

2n

= 24.

Vaccinium crassifolium

Phenology Flowering late spring.
Habitat Coastal plain, open pine flatwoods, pine barrens, pocosin ecotones and associated disturbed areas, road cuts, fire trails, mown roadsides
Elevation 0-200 m (0-700 ft)
Distribution
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GA; NC; SC; VA
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Source FNA vol. 8, p. 525.
Parent taxa Ericaceae > subfam. Vaccinioideae > Vaccinium > sect. Herpothamnus
Sibling taxa
V. angustifolium, V. arboreum, V. boreale, V. cespitosum, V. corymbosum, V. darrowii, V. deliciosum, V. erythrocarpum, V. hirsutum, V. macrocarpon, V. membranaceum, V. myrsinites, V. myrtilloides, V. myrtillus, V. ovalifolium, V. ovatum, V. oxycoccos, V. pallidum, V. parvifolium, V. scoparium, V. stamineum, V. tenellum, V. uliginosum, V. vitis-idaea
Synonyms Herpothamnus crassifolius, V. crassifolium subsp. sempervirens, V. sempervirens
Name authority Andrews: Bot. Repos. 2: plate 105. (1800)
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