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Florida evergreen blueberry, shiny blueberry
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airelle à feuilles ovées, Alaska blueberry, early blueberry, oval-leaf blueberry, oval-leaf huckleberry
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| Plants forming extensive open colonies, 1.4–10 dm; twigs bright green, ± angled, hairy in lines. |
Plants crown-forming, clumped, suckering when disturbed, rarely forming extensive colonies, 3–40 dm, not rhizomatous; twigs yellow-green or golden brown, glaucous, usually terete, sometimes somewhat angled, glabrous, sometimes hairy in lines. |
persistent for 1+ years; blade green, elliptic, 5–9 × 3–5 mm, coriaceous, margins ± serrulate, surfaces glandular abaxially. |
blades pale green or glaucous abaxially, slightly darker pale green adaxially, ovate to elliptic, rarely obovate, 25–39 × 16–20 mm, margins entire to obscurely serrate, abaxial surface glabrous, eglandular (sometimes hairy or glandular along midvein), adaxial surface usually glabrous (sometimes hairy and/or glandular). |
calyx pinkish white, becoming greenish, glabrous; corolla white to pink or red, ± urceolate, 4–8 mm; filaments ciliate along margins. |
calyx pale green or glaucous, lobes vestigial or absent, glabrous; corolla pink, bronze-pink, or greenish white, globose, sometimes urceolate, 5–7 × 4–5 mm, thin, glaucous; filaments glabrous or pilose basally. |
black, 7–9 mm diam., glabrous. |
blue, dull purplish black, or black, sometimes glaucous, 8–10 mm diam. |
4–13, ca. 1 mm. |
ca. 1 mm. |
= 24, 48. |
= 24, 48. |
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| Flowering winter–spring. |
Flowering spring-mid summer(-late summer). |
| Flatwoods, sand-pine scrub, oak-palmetto scrub, scrubby flatwoods, rosemary balds |
Moist or mesic coniferous woods, transitional habitats adjacent to these coniferous stands, cut-over coniferous woods, verges of road cuts, margins of coniferous woods, peaty slopes |
| 0-30 m (0-100 ft) |
0-2100 m (0-6900 ft) |
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AL; FL; GA; SC
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AK; ID; MI; OR; SD; WA; AB; BC; NF; NS; ON; QC; YT; e Asia (c Japan, Kamchatka)
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| FNA vol. 8, p. 527. |
FNA vol. 8, p. 524. |
| Ericaceae > subfam. Vaccinioideae > Vaccinium > sect. Cyanococcus |
Ericaceae > subfam. Vaccinioideae > Vaccinium > sect. Myrtillus |
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. darrowii, V. deliciosum, V. erythrocarpum, V. hirsutum, V. macrocarpon, V. membranaceum, V. myrsinites, V. myrtilloides, V. myrtillus, V. ovatum, V. oxycoccos, V. pallidum, V. parvifolium, V. scoparium, V. stamineum, V. tenellum, V. uliginosum, V. vitis-idaea |
| Cyanococcus myrsinites, V. nitidum |
V. alaskaense |
| Lamarck: in J. Lamarck et al., Encycl. 1: 73. (1783) |
Smith: in A. Rees, Cycl. 36: Vaccinium no. 2. (1817) |
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BC, 
OR, 
WA
Flora NW, 
MI Flora, 
PNW Herbaria
WildflowerSearch
iNaturalist (observations)
USDA Plants Database
