Vaccinium pallidum
Vaccinium macrocarpon
Blue Ridge blueberry, Blue Ridge or late low-bush blueberry, hillside blueberry, lowbush blueberry
American cranberry, canneberge à gros fruits, cranberry, cultivated cranberry, large cranberry
persistent.
blades glaucous abaxially, green adaxially, usually narrowly elliptic to elliptic, rarely oblong, 5–18 × 2–55 mm, margins entire, slightly revolute.
terminal, racemes, on lateral twigs, on previous year’s shoots or older woody stems.
in axils of leaflike bracts at base of current year’s shoots.
articulated with calyx tube.
nodding, slender, 2–3 cm, bracteolate;
bracteoles 2, greenish white, scalelike, 1–2 mm wide.
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.
calyx lobes relatively small;
corolla strongly reflexed at anthesis, white to pink;
filaments hairy;
anther tubules 1–2 mm.
[4-], 5-, [pseudo 8-, or pseudo 10]-locular.
red to pink, 9–14 mm diam., smooth.
10–25, (ca. 1 mm).
= 24.
Vaccinium pallidum
Vaccinium macrocarpon
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.)
Vaccinium macrocarpon is introduced and escaping elsewhere (British Columbia, Oregon, Washington) with respect to its normal range in eastern North America.
(Discussion copyrighted by Flora of North America; reprinted with permission.)
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