Vaccinium pallidum |
Vaccinium myrtilloides |
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Blue Ridge blueberry, Blue Ridge or late low-bush blueberry, hillside blueberry, lowbush blueberry |
bleuet fausse-myrtille, sour-top blueberry, sourtop, velvet-leaf blueberry, velvetleaf huckleberry |
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Habit | Shrubs, erect, (3–)4–12(–40) dm, rhizomatous, (twigs of previous year not verrucose). | Plants forming ± open colonies, 1–11.5 dm; twigs greenish brown, terete, pilose or hairy. |
Leaves | persistent. |
deciduous; blade green, elliptic, 23–35 × 8–16 mm, membranous to subcoriaceous, margins entire, surfaces ± densely hairy (sometimes mostly on veins), eglandular, sometimes glabrescent. |
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 | 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 green, glabrous, (eglandular); corolla greenish white to pink, urceolate, 3–5 mm, (eglandular); filaments usually hairy. |
Berries | [4-], 5-, [pseudo 8-, or pseudo 10]-locular. |
blue, glaucous, 6–8 mm diam., glabrous. |
Seeds | 10–25, (ca. 1 mm). |
10–40, ca. 1 mm. |
2n | = 24. |
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Vaccinium pallidum |
Vaccinium myrtilloides |
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Phenology | Flowering mid-late spring. | Flowering late spring–early summer. |
Habitat | Dry, open oak or oak- hickory woods, open pine woods, ledges, abandoned farmland or cut-over deciduous forests | Open or disturbed sites in boreal forest, muskegs, bogs, barrens, headlands, outcrops, mountain meadows |
Elevation | 0-1600 m (0-5200 ft) | 0-1700 m (0-5600 ft) |
Distribution |
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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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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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. 529. | FNA vol. 8, p. 529. |
Parent taxa | Ericaceae > subfam. Vaccinioideae > Vaccinium > sect. Cyanococcus | Ericaceae > subfam. Vaccinioideae > Vaccinium > sect. Cyanococcus |
Sibling taxa | ||
Synonyms | 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 | Cyanococcus canadensis, V. angustifolium var. myrtilloides, V. canadense |
Name authority | Aiton: Hort. Kew. 2: 10. 1789 , | Michaux: Fl. Bor.-Amer. 1: 234. 1803 , |
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