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Florida evergreen blueberry, shiny blueberry
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deerberry, southern gooseberry
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| Plants forming extensive open colonies, 1.4–10 dm; twigs bright green, ± angled, hairy in lines. |
Plants frequently crown-forming, suckering when disturbed, forming small or extensive colonies; twigs of current season variously colored, most often green or glaucous, glabrous to densely hairy, sometimes pilose or glandular (not verrucose). |
persistent for 1+ years; blade green, elliptic, 5–9 × 3–5 mm, coriaceous, margins ± serrulate, surfaces glandular abaxially. |
blades usually pale green or glaucous abaxially, green adaxially, elliptic, 20–80 × 9–32 mm, ± membranous, margins usually entire, inrolled on more-coriaceous blades, surfaces glabrous or densely hairy, rarely glandular. |
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2–7-flowered, sometimes flowers solitary. |
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subtended by leaflike bract (ca. as long as flower). |
calyx pinkish white, becoming greenish, glabrous; corolla white to pink or red, ± urceolate, 4–8 mm; filaments ciliate along margins. |
corolla lobes spreading at anthesis, white to greenish white, sometimes purple veined, 4–8 mm; filaments glabrous or hairy. |
black, 7–9 mm diam., glabrous. |
green, yellow-green, yellow, purple, or black, often lightly glaucous, 7–18 mm diam., sometimes hairy and sparsely glandular. |
4–13, ca. 1 mm. |
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= 24, 48. |
= 24. |
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| Flowering winter–spring. |
Flowering spring(-early summer). |
| Flatwoods, sand-pine scrub, oak-palmetto scrub, scrubby flatwoods, rosemary balds |
Sandy, well-drained soil, xeric communities such as dry oak woods, pine barrens, savannas, dry pine ridges, sparsely wooded bluffs, sand hills, thickets, clearings (usually on acidic substrates, sometimes on limestone) |
| 0-30 m (0-100 ft) |
0-1700 m (0-5600 ft) |
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AL; FL; GA; SC
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AL; AR; CT; DC; DE; FL; GA; IL; IN; KS; KY; LA; MA; MD; MO; MS; NC; NJ; NY; OH; OK; PA; RI; SC; TN; TX; VA; WV; ON; Mexico (Hidalgo, Nuevo León, Oaxaca, San Luis Potosí)
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Vaccinium stamineum has been subject to an inordinate amount of splitting, especially by E. L. Greene and W. W. Ashe (see S. P. Vander Kloet 1988). (Discussion copyrighted by Flora of North America; reprinted with permission.) |
| FNA vol. 8, p. 527. |
FNA vol. 8, p. 521. |
| Ericaceae > subfam. Vaccinioideae > Vaccinium > sect. Cyanococcus |
Ericaceae > subfam. Vaccinioideae > Vaccinium > sect. Polycodium |
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. ovalifolium, V. ovatum, V. oxycoccos, V. pallidum, V. parvifolium, V. scoparium, V. tenellum, V. uliginosum, V. vitis-idaea |
| Cyanococcus myrsinites, V. nitidum |
Polycodium ashei, Polycodium candicans, Polycodium depressum, Polycodium floridanum, Polycodium leptosepalum, Polycodium macilentum, Polycodium melanocarpum, Polycodium neglectum, Polycodium stamineum, V. caesium, V. melanocarpum, V. neglectum, V. stamineum var. affine, V. stamineum var. austromontanum, V. stamineum var. interius, V. stamineum var. melanocarpum, V. stamineum var. neglectum, V. stamineum var. virginianum |
| Lamarck: in J. Lamarck et al., Encycl. 1: 73. (1783) |
Linnaeus: Sp. Pl. 1: 350. 1753 , |
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