Vaccinium myrsinites |
Vaccinium cespitosum |
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Florida evergreen blueberry, shiny blueberry |
airelle gazonnante, dwarf bilberry, dwarf blueberry, dwarf huckleberry |
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Habit | Plants forming extensive open colonies, 1.4–10 dm; twigs bright green, ± angled, hairy in lines. | 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. |
Leaves | persistent for 1+ years; blade green, elliptic, 5–9 × 3–5 mm, coriaceous, margins ± serrulate, surfaces glandular abaxially. |
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. |
Flowers | calyx pinkish white, becoming greenish, glabrous; corolla white to pink or red, ± urceolate, 4–8 mm; filaments ciliate along margins. |
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. |
Berries | black, 7–9 mm diam., glabrous. |
usually blue, glaucous, rarely dull black, 5–9 mm diam. |
Seeds | 4–13, ca. 1 mm. |
ca. 1 mm. |
2n | = 24, 48. |
= 24. |
Vaccinium myrsinites |
Vaccinium cespitosum |
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Phenology | Flowering winter–spring. | Flowering late spring-mid summer. |
Habitat | Flatwoods, sand-pine scrub, oak-palmetto scrub, scrubby flatwoods, rosemary balds | Open, usually dry habitats, from lowland to subalpine areas |
Elevation | 0-30 m (0-100 ft) | 0-4500 m (0-14800 ft) |
Distribution |
AL; FL; GA; SC
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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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Source | FNA vol. 8, p. 527. | FNA vol. 8, p. 524. |
Parent taxa | Ericaceae > subfam. Vaccinioideae > Vaccinium > sect. Cyanococcus | Ericaceae > subfam. Vaccinioideae > Vaccinium > sect. Myrtillus |
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Synonyms | Cyanococcus myrsinites, V. nitidum | V. arbuscula, V. caespitosum var. arbuscula, V. caespitosum var. paludicola, V. geminiflorum, V. nivictum, V. paludicola |
Name authority | Lamarck: in J. Lamarck et al., Encycl. 1: 73. (1783) | Michaux: Fl. Bor.-Amer. 1: 234. 1803 , |
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