Vaccinium myrtilloides |
Vaccinium arboreum |
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bleuet fausse-myrtille, sour-top blueberry, sourtop, velvet-leaf blueberry, velvetleaf huckleberry |
farkleberry, sparkleberry |
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Habit | Plants forming ± open colonies, 1–11.5 dm; twigs greenish brown, terete, pilose or hairy. | Shrubs or trees, trunks to 35 cm diam. at breast height; twigs of current season reddish green, glabrous, glaucous, or glandular-hairy, not verrucose. |
Leaves | deciduous; blade green, elliptic, 23–35 × 8–16 mm, membranous to subcoriaceous, margins entire, surfaces ± densely hairy (sometimes mostly on veins), eglandular, sometimes glabrescent. |
blades pale green, glaucous, obovate to oblong, 22–40 × 12–20 mm, coriaceous, surfaces glabrous or glandular-hairy abaxially, glabrous and lustrous adaxially. |
Inflorescence | bracts ± persistent. |
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Pedicels | slender, 0.8–1.2 cm. |
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Flowers | calyx green, glabrous, (eglandular); corolla greenish white to pink, urceolate, 3–5 mm, (eglandular); filaments usually hairy. |
calyx 21–29 × 7–13 mm; corolla white, 3–5 mm; filaments ciliate. |
Berries | blue, glaucous, 6–8 mm diam., glabrous. |
shiny black, 7–9 mm diam. 2n = 24. |
Seeds | 10–40, ca. 1 mm. |
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2n | = 24. |
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Vaccinium myrtilloides |
Vaccinium arboreum |
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Phenology | Flowering late spring–early summer. | Flowering spring. |
Habitat | Open or disturbed sites in boreal forest, muskegs, bogs, barrens, headlands, outcrops, mountain meadows | Sandy or rocky habitats, usually xeric woodlands |
Elevation | 0-1700 m (0-5600 ft) | 0-800 m (0-2600 ft) |
Distribution |
CT; IA; IL; IN; MA; ME; MN; MT; NH; NY; OH; PA; VT; WI; WV; AB; BC; LB; MB; NB; NS; NT; ON; PE; QC; SK
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AL; AR; FL; GA; IL; IN; KS; KY; LA; MO; MS; NC; OK; SC; TN; TX; VA
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Discussion | Vaccinium arboreum is rare and local in Illinois, Indiana, Kansas, Kentucky, and Virginia. (Discussion copyrighted by Flora of North America; reprinted with permission.) |
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Source | FNA vol. 8, p. 529. | FNA vol. 8, p. 525. |
Parent taxa | Ericaceae > subfam. Vaccinioideae > Vaccinium > sect. Cyanococcus | Ericaceae > subfam. Vaccinioideae > Vaccinium > sect. Batodendron |
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Synonyms | Cyanococcus canadensis, V. angustifolium var. myrtilloides, V. canadense | Batodendron arboreum, V. arboreum var. glaucescens |
Name authority | Michaux: Fl. Bor.-Amer. 1: 234. 1803 , | Marshall: Arbust. Amer., 157. 1785 , |
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