Vaccinium pallidum |
Vaccinium ovatum |
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Blue Ridge blueberry, Blue Ridge or late low-bush blueberry, hillside blueberry, lowbush blueberry |
California huckleberry, evergreen huckelberry, evergreen huckleberry, winter huckleberry |
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Habit | Shrubs, erect, (3–)4–12(–40) dm, rhizomatous, (twigs of previous year not verrucose). | Plants clump- or crown-forming; twigs ± terete, pilose. |
Leaves | persistent. |
blades pale green abaxially, lustrous dark green adaxially, narrowly ovate, 21–29 × 8–12 mm, coriaceous, margins sharply serrate, surfaces glandular abaxially. |
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. |
corolla pinkish, 3–5 mm; filaments hairy. |
Berries | [4-], 5-, [pseudo 8-, or pseudo 10]-locular. |
black or blue, 6–8 mm diam. 2n = 24. |
Seeds | 10–25, (ca. 1 mm). |
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Vaccinium pallidum |
Vaccinium ovatum |
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Phenology | Flowering mid-late spring. | Flowering early spring-mid summer. |
Habitat | Dry, open oak or oak- hickory woods, open pine woods, ledges, abandoned farmland or cut-over deciduous forests | Edges of coniferous forests, also epiphytic on trunks of redwoods |
Elevation | 0-1600 m (0-5200 ft) | 0-30 m (0-100 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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CA; OR; WA; BC
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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. 530. |
Parent taxa | Ericaceae > subfam. Vaccinioideae > Vaccinium > sect. Cyanococcus | Ericaceae > subfam. Vaccinioideae > Vaccinium > sect. Pyxothamnus |
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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 | V. ovatum var. saporosum |
Name authority | Aiton: Hort. Kew. 2: 10. 1789 , | Pursh: Fl. Amer. Sept. 1: 290. 1813 , |
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