Vaccinium ovatum |
Vaccinium pallidum |
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California huckleberry, evergreen huckelberry, evergreen huckleberry, winter huckleberry |
Blue Ridge blueberry, Blue Ridge or late low-bush blueberry, hillside blueberry, lowbush blueberry |
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Habit | Plants clump- or crown-forming; twigs ± terete, pilose. | Shrubs, erect, (3–)4–12(–40) dm, rhizomatous, (twigs of previous year not verrucose). |
Leaves | blades pale green abaxially, lustrous dark green adaxially, narrowly ovate, 21–29 × 8–12 mm, coriaceous, margins sharply serrate, surfaces glandular abaxially. |
persistent. |
Inflorescences | terminal, racemes, on lateral twigs, on previous year’s shoots or older woody stems. |
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Pedicels | articulated with calyx tube. |
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Flowers | corolla pinkish, 3–5 mm; filaments hairy. |
sepals 5; petals 4–5, connate for nearly their entire lengths, corolla cylindric or urceolate; stamens 10, included; anthers ± without awns, tubules 1–1.5 mm, with terminal pores. |
Berries | black or blue, 6–8 mm diam. 2n = 24. |
[4-], 5-, [pseudo 8-, or pseudo 10]-locular. |
Seeds | 10–25, (ca. 1 mm). |
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Vaccinium ovatum |
Vaccinium pallidum |
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Phenology | Flowering early spring-mid summer. | Flowering mid-late spring. |
Habitat | Edges of coniferous forests, also epiphytic on trunks of redwoods | Dry, open oak or oak- hickory woods, open pine woods, ledges, abandoned farmland or cut-over deciduous forests |
Elevation | 0-30 m (0-100 ft) | 0-1600 m (0-5200 ft) |
Distribution |
CA; OR; WA; BC
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AL; AR; CT; DC; DE; GA; IL; IN; KS; KY; MA; MD; ME; MI; MO; MS; NC; NH; NJ; NY; OH; OK; PA; RI; SC; TN; VA; VT; WI; WV; ON
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Discussion | The flowers of Vaccinium pallidum are visited primarily by Andrena carlini Cockerell and Bombus spp. This species occasionally hybridizes with V. angustifolium, yielding V. ×dobbinii Burnham. (Discussion copyrighted by Flora of North America; reprinted with permission.) |
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Source | FNA vol. 8, p. 530. | FNA vol. 8, p. 529. |
Parent taxa | Ericaceae > subfam. Vaccinioideae > Vaccinium > sect. Pyxothamnus | Ericaceae > subfam. Vaccinioideae > Vaccinium > sect. Cyanococcus |
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Synonyms | V. ovatum var. saporosum | Cyanococcus liparis, Cyanococcus margarettae, Cyanococcus pallidus, Cyanococcus subcordatus, Cyanococcus tallapusae, Cyanococcus vacillans, V. altomontanum, V. corymbosum var. pallidum, V. margarettae, V. vacillans, V. vacillans var. crinitum, V. vacillans var. missouriense, V. viride |
Name authority | Pursh: Fl. Amer. Sept. 1: 290. 1813 , | Aiton: Hort. Kew. 2: 10. 1789 , |
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