Flora of North America species comparison

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Vaccinium myrsinites

Vaccinium darrowii

Florida evergreen blueberry, shiny blueberry

Darrow's blueberry, Darrow's evergreen blueberry, southern highbush blueberry
Habit Plants forming extensive open colonies, 1.4–10 dm; twigs bright green, ± angled, hairy in lines. Plants forming extensive open colonies, 1–15 dm; twigs pale green, glaucous, ± terete, puberulent.
Leaves

persistent for 1+ years;

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

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 pinkish white, becoming greenish, glabrous;

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

filaments ciliate along margins.

calyx greenish, glabrous;

corolla white tinged with pink or red, ± urceolate, 4–6 mm;

filaments ciliate.
Berries

black, 7–9 mm diam., glabrous.

blue, glaucous, 8–10 mm diam., glabrous.
Seeds

4–13, ca. 1 mm.

10–20, ca. 1 mm.
2n

= 24, 48.

= 24.

Vaccinium myrsinites

Vaccinium darrowii
Phenology Flowering winter–spring. Flowering winter–spring.
Habitat Flatwoods, sand-pine scrub, oak-palmetto scrub, scrubby flatwoods, rosemary balds Low flatwoods, scrubby flatwoods, oak-scrub, palmetto scrubs and swales
Elevation 0-30 m (0-100 ft) 0-30 m (0-100 ft)
Distribution
from FNA
AL; FL; GA; SC
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from FNA
AL; FL; GA; LA; MS
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Source FNA vol. 8, p. 527. FNA vol. 8, p. 527.
Parent taxa Ericaceae > subfam. Vaccinioideae > Vaccinium > sect. Cyanococcus Ericaceae > subfam. Vaccinioideae > Vaccinium > sect. Cyanococcus
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. crassifolium, 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 V. myrsinites var. glaucum
Name authority Lamarck: in J. Lamarck et al., Encycl. 1: 73. (1783) Camp: Bull. Torrey Bot. Club 69: 240. 1942 (as darrowi) ,
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