Vaccinium myrsinites |
Vaccinium ovatum |
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Florida evergreen blueberry, shiny blueberry |
California huckleberry, evergreen huckelberry, evergreen huckleberry, winter huckleberry |
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Habit | Plants forming extensive open colonies, 1.4–10 dm; twigs bright green, ± angled, hairy in lines. | Plants clump- or crown-forming; twigs ± terete, pilose. |
Leaves | persistent for 1+ years; blade green, elliptic, 5–9 × 3–5 mm, coriaceous, margins ± serrulate, surfaces glandular abaxially. |
blades pale green abaxially, lustrous dark green adaxially, narrowly ovate, 21–29 × 8–12 mm, coriaceous, margins sharply serrate, surfaces glandular abaxially. |
Flowers | calyx pinkish white, becoming greenish, glabrous; corolla white to pink or red, ± urceolate, 4–8 mm; filaments ciliate along margins. |
corolla pinkish, 3–5 mm; filaments hairy. |
Berries | black, 7–9 mm diam., glabrous. |
black or blue, 6–8 mm diam. 2n = 24. |
Seeds | 4–13, ca. 1 mm. |
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2n | = 24, 48. |
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Vaccinium myrsinites |
Vaccinium ovatum |
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Phenology | Flowering winter–spring. | Flowering early spring-mid summer. |
Habitat | Flatwoods, sand-pine scrub, oak-palmetto scrub, scrubby flatwoods, rosemary balds | Edges of coniferous forests, also epiphytic on trunks of redwoods |
Elevation | 0-30 m (0-100 ft) | 0-30 m (0-100 ft) |
Distribution |
AL; FL; GA; SC
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CA; OR; WA; BC
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Source | FNA vol. 8, p. 527. | FNA vol. 8, p. 530. |
Parent taxa | Ericaceae > subfam. Vaccinioideae > Vaccinium > sect. Cyanococcus | Ericaceae > subfam. Vaccinioideae > Vaccinium > sect. Pyxothamnus |
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Synonyms | Cyanococcus myrsinites, V. nitidum | V. ovatum var. saporosum |
Name authority | Lamarck: in J. Lamarck et al., Encycl. 1: 73. (1783) | Pursh: Fl. Amer. Sept. 1: 290. 1813 , |
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