Vaccinium darrowii |
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Darrow's blueberry, Darrow's evergreen blueberry, southern highbush blueberry |
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Habit | Plants forming extensive open colonies, 1–15 dm; twigs pale green, glaucous, ± terete, puberulent. |
Leaves | persistent for 1+ years; blade usually pale green abaxially, dark green adaxially, elliptic, 7–11 × 3–5 mm, coriaceous, margins entire, (often inrolled), surfaces usually glabrous abaxially (rarely minutely hairy along midvein). |
Flowers | calyx greenish, glabrous; corolla white tinged with pink or red, ± urceolate, 4–6 mm; filaments ciliate. |
Berries | blue, glaucous, 8–10 mm diam., glabrous. |
Seeds | 10–20, ca. 1 mm. |
2n | = 24. |
Vaccinium darrowii |
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Phenology | Flowering winter–spring. |
Habitat | Low flatwoods, scrubby flatwoods, oak-scrub, palmetto scrubs and swales |
Elevation | 0-30 m (0-100 ft) |
Distribution |
AL; FL; GA; LA; MS
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Source | FNA vol. 8, p. 527. |
Parent taxa | Ericaceae > subfam. Vaccinioideae > Vaccinium > sect. Cyanococcus |
Sibling taxa | |
Synonyms | V. myrsinites var. glaucum |
Name authority | Camp: Bull. Torrey Bot. Club 69: 240. 1942 (as darrowi) , |
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