Vaccinium ovatum |
Vaccinium crassifolium |
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California huckleberry, evergreen huckelberry, evergreen huckleberry, winter huckleberry |
creeping blueberry |
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Habit | Plants clump- or crown-forming; twigs ± terete, pilose. | Plants extensively mat-forming (often by layering), with erect branches from lateral buds, rooting and/or swelling into woody burls at nodes; twigs of current year reddish green, terete, finely hairy, not verrucose. |
Leaf | blades pale green abaxially, lustrous dark green adaxially, narrowly ovate, 21–29 × 8–12 mm, coriaceous, margins sharply serrate, surfaces glandular abaxially. |
blades dark green, elliptic to obovate, (10–)12–15(–39) × (4–)5–7(–24) mm, coriaceous, margins ± entire, surfaces glabrescent. |
Pedicels | 0.1–0.3 cm. |
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Flowers | corolla pinkish, 3–5 mm; filaments hairy. |
calyx lobes distinct; corolla usually white, 3–5 mm; filaments ciliate. |
Berries | black or blue, 6–8 mm diam. 2n = 24. |
black, 6–8 mm diam., insipid. |
2n | = 24. |
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Vaccinium ovatum |
Vaccinium crassifolium |
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Phenology | Flowering early spring-mid summer. | Flowering late spring. |
Habitat | Edges of coniferous forests, also epiphytic on trunks of redwoods | Coastal plain, open pine flatwoods, pine barrens, pocosin ecotones and associated disturbed areas, road cuts, fire trails, mown roadsides |
Elevation | 0-30 m (0-100 ft) | 0-200 m (0-700 ft) |
Distribution |
CA; OR; WA; BC
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GA; NC; SC; VA
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Source | FNA vol. 8, p. 530. | FNA vol. 8, p. 525. |
Parent taxa | Ericaceae > subfam. Vaccinioideae > Vaccinium > sect. Pyxothamnus | Ericaceae > subfam. Vaccinioideae > Vaccinium > sect. Herpothamnus |
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Synonyms | V. ovatum var. saporosum | Herpothamnus crassifolius, V. crassifolium subsp. sempervirens, V. sempervirens |
Name authority | Pursh: Fl. Amer. Sept. 1: 290. 1813 , | Andrews: Bot. Repos. 2: plate 105. (1800) |
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