Vaccinium ovalifolium |
Vaccinium myrsinites |
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airelle à feuilles ovées, Alaska blueberry, early blueberry, oval-leaf blueberry, oval-leaf huckleberry |
Florida evergreen blueberry, shiny blueberry |
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Habit | 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. | Plants forming extensive open colonies, 1.4–10 dm; twigs bright green, ± angled, hairy in lines. |
Leaves | 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). |
persistent for 1+ years; blade green, elliptic, 5–9 × 3–5 mm, coriaceous, margins ± serrulate, surfaces glandular abaxially. |
Flowers | 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. |
calyx pinkish white, becoming greenish, glabrous; corolla white to pink or red, ± urceolate, 4–8 mm; filaments ciliate along margins. |
Berries | blue, dull purplish black, or black, sometimes glaucous, 8–10 mm diam. |
black, 7–9 mm diam., glabrous. |
Seeds | ca. 1 mm. |
4–13, ca. 1 mm. |
2n | = 24, 48. |
= 24, 48. |
Vaccinium ovalifolium |
Vaccinium myrsinites |
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Phenology | Flowering spring-mid summer(-late summer). | Flowering winter–spring. |
Habitat | 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 | Flatwoods, sand-pine scrub, oak-palmetto scrub, scrubby flatwoods, rosemary balds |
Elevation | 0-2100 m (0-6900 ft) | 0-30 m (0-100 ft) |
Distribution |
AK; ID; MI; OR; SD; WA; AB; BC; NF; NS; ON; QC; YT; e Asia (c Japan, Kamchatka)
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AL; FL; GA; SC
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Source | FNA vol. 8, p. 524. | FNA vol. 8, p. 527. |
Parent taxa | Ericaceae > subfam. Vaccinioideae > Vaccinium > sect. Myrtillus | Ericaceae > subfam. Vaccinioideae > Vaccinium > sect. Cyanococcus |
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Synonyms | V. alaskaense | Cyanococcus myrsinites, V. nitidum |
Name authority | Smith: in A. Rees, Cycl. 36: Vaccinium no. 2. (1817) | Lamarck: in J. Lamarck et al., Encycl. 1: 73. (1783) |
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