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dingleberry, southern mountain cranberry

deerberry, southern gooseberry

Habit Plants frequently crown-forming, suckering when disturbed, forming small or extensive colonies; twigs of current season variously colored, most often green or glaucous, glabrous to densely hairy, sometimes pilose or glandular (not verrucose).
Leaf

blades usually pale green or glaucous abaxially, green adaxially, elliptic, 20–80 × 9–32 mm, ± membranous, margins usually entire, inrolled on more-coriaceous blades, surfaces glabrous or densely hairy, rarely glandular.

Inflorescences

2–7-flowered, sometimes flowers solitary.

Pedicels

subtended by leaflike bract (ca. as long as flower).

Flowers

corolla lobes spreading at anthesis, white to greenish white, sometimes purple veined, 4–8 mm;

filaments glabrous or hairy.

Berries

green, yellow-green, yellow, purple, or black, often lightly glaucous, 7–18 mm diam., sometimes hairy and sparsely glandular.

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Vaccinium erythrocarpum

Vaccinium stamineum

Phenology Flowering spring(-early summer).
Habitat Sandy, well-drained soil, xeric communities such as dry oak woods, pine barrens, savannas, dry pine ridges, sparsely wooded bluffs, sand hills, thickets, clearings (usually on acidic substrates, sometimes on limestone)
Elevation 0-1700 m (0-5600 ft)
Distribution
from FNA
GA; NC; TN; VA; WV; se Asia
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AL; AR; CT; DC; DE; FL; GA; IL; IN; KS; KY; LA; MA; MD; MO; MS; NC; NJ; NY; OH; OK; PA; RI; SC; TN; TX; VA; WV; ON; Mexico (Hidalgo, Nuevo León, Oaxaca, San Luis Potosí)
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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.)

Vaccinium stamineum has been subject to an inordinate amount of splitting, especially by E. L. Greene and W. W. Ashe (see S. P. Vander Kloet 1988).

(Discussion copyrighted by Flora of North America; reprinted with permission.)

Source FNA vol. 8, p. 517. FNA vol. 8, p. 521.
Parent taxa Ericaceae > subfam. Vaccinioideae > Vaccinium > sect. Oxycoccoides Ericaceae > subfam. Vaccinioideae > Vaccinium > sect. Polycodium
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. crassifolium, 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. tenellum, V. uliginosum, V. vitis-idaea
Subordinate taxa
V. erythrocarpum subsp. erythrocarpum
Synonyms Hugeria erythrocarpa, Oxycoccus erectus Polycodium ashei, Polycodium candicans, Polycodium depressum, Polycodium floridanum, Polycodium leptosepalum, Polycodium macilentum, Polycodium melanocarpum, Polycodium neglectum, Polycodium stamineum, V. caesium, V. melanocarpum, V. neglectum, V. stamineum var. affine, V. stamineum var. austromontanum, V. stamineum var. interius, V. stamineum var. melanocarpum, V. stamineum var. neglectum, V. stamineum var. virginianum
Name authority Michaux: Fl. Bor.-Amer. 1: 227. (1803) Linnaeus: Sp. Pl. 1: 350. 1753 ,
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