Flora of North America species comparison

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Vaccinium myrsinites

Vaccinium crassifolium

Florida evergreen blueberry, shiny blueberry

creeping blueberry
Habit Plants forming extensive open colonies, 1.4–10 dm; twigs bright green, ± angled, hairy in lines. 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.
Leaves

persistent for 1+ years;

blade green, elliptic, 5–9 × 3–5 mm, coriaceous, margins ± serrulate, surfaces glandular abaxially.

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 pinkish white, becoming greenish, glabrous;

corolla white to pink or red, ± urceolate, 4–8 mm;

filaments ciliate along margins.

calyx lobes distinct;

corolla usually white, 3–5 mm;

filaments ciliate.
Berries

black, 7–9 mm diam., glabrous.

black, 6–8 mm diam., insipid.
Seeds

4–13, ca. 1 mm.

2n

= 24, 48.

= 24.

Vaccinium myrsinites

Vaccinium crassifolium
Phenology Flowering winter–spring. Flowering late spring.
Habitat Flatwoods, sand-pine scrub, oak-palmetto scrub, scrubby flatwoods, rosemary balds Coastal plain, open pine flatwoods, pine barrens, pocosin ecotones and associated disturbed areas, road cuts, fire trails, mown roadsides
Elevation 0-30 m (0-100 ft) 0-200 m (0-700 ft)
Distribution
from FNA
AL; FL; GA; SC
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from FNA
GA; NC; SC; VA
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Source FNA vol. 8, p. 527. FNA vol. 8, p. 525.
Parent taxa Ericaceae > subfam. Vaccinioideae > Vaccinium > sect. Cyanococcus 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. erythrocarpum, V. hirsutum, V. macrocarpon, V. membranaceum, 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
Synonyms Cyanococcus myrsinites, V. nitidum Herpothamnus crassifolius, V. crassifolium subsp. sempervirens, V. sempervirens
Name authority Lamarck: in J. Lamarck et al., Encycl. 1: 73. (1783) Andrews: Bot. Repos. 2: plate 105. (1800)
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