Flora of North America species comparison

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Vaccinium erythrocarpum

Vaccinium crassifolium

dingleberry, southern mountain cranberry

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.
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United States

2n

= 24.

Vaccinium erythrocarpum

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
from FNA
GA; NC; TN; VA; WV; se Asia
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from FNA
GA; NC; SC; VA
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Discussion

Subspecies 2 (1 in the flora).

Subspecies japonicum (Miquel) Kloet [V. japonicum Miquel] is disjunct in southeastern Asia (S. P. Vander Kloet and B. A. Bohm 1991).

(Discussion copyrighted by Flora of North America; reprinted with permission.)
Source FNA vol. 8, p. 517. FNA vol. 8, p. 525.
Parent taxa Ericaceae > subfam. Vaccinioideae > Vaccinium > sect. Oxycoccoides Ericaceae > subfam. Vaccinioideae > Vaccinium > sect. Herpothamnus
Sibling taxa
V. angustifolium, V. arboreum, V. boreale, V. cespitosum, V. corymbosum, V. crassifolium, V. darrowii, V. deliciosum, 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
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
Subordinate taxa
V. erythrocarpum subsp. erythrocarpum
Synonyms Hugeria erythrocarpa, Oxycoccus erectus Herpothamnus crassifolius, V. crassifolium subsp. sempervirens, V. sempervirens
Name authority Michaux: Fl. Bor.-Amer. 1: 227. (1803) Andrews: Bot. Repos. 2: plate 105. (1800)
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