Flora of North America species comparison

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Vaccinium tenellum

Vaccinium erythrocarpum

small black blueberry, southern blueberry

dingleberry, southern mountain cranberry
Habit Plants forming extensive, open colonies, 1–7.5 dm; twigs yellowish green, ± terete, hairy.
Leaves

deciduous, rarely persistent;

blade green, spatulate to elliptic, 13–40 × 3–17 mm, subcoriaceous, margins sharply to obscurely serrate, surfaces glandular abaxially, hairy especially when young, rarely glabrous.

Flowers

calyx pale green, sometimes hairy;

corolla usually white tinged with pink, cylindric, 5–9 mm;

filaments ± hairy.

Berries

black, 6–8 mm diam., sometimes puberulent.

Seeds

5–25, ca. 1 mm.

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United States
2n

= 24.

Vaccinium tenellum

Vaccinium erythrocarpum
Phenology Flowering winter–spring.
Habitat Dry sand hills, pine barrens, scrubby oak woods, open pine parkland, and flatwoods subject to burning
Elevation 0-200 m (0-700 ft)
Distribution
from FNA
AL; FL; GA; MS; NC; SC; VA
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from FNA
GA; NC; TN; VA; WV; se Asia
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Discussion

Subspecies 2 (1 in the flora).

Subspecies japonicum (Miquel) Kloet [V. japonicum Miquel] is disjunct in southeastern Asia (S. P. Vander Kloet and B. A. Bohm 1991).

(Discussion copyrighted by Flora of North America; reprinted with permission.)
Source FNA vol. 8, p. 528. FNA vol. 8, p. 517.
Parent taxa Ericaceae > subfam. Vaccinioideae > Vaccinium > sect. Cyanococcus Ericaceae > subfam. Vaccinioideae > Vaccinium > sect. Oxycoccoides
Sibling taxa
V. angustifolium, V. arboreum, V. boreale, V. cespitosum, V. corymbosum, V. crassifolium, V. darrowii, V. deliciosum, V. erythrocarpum, V. hirsutum, V. macrocarpon, V. membranaceum, V. myrsinites, V. myrtilloides, V. myrtillus, V. ovalifolium, V. ovatum, V. oxycoccos, V. pallidum, V. parvifolium, V. scoparium, V. stamineum, V. uliginosum, V. vitis-idaea
V. angustifolium, V. arboreum, V. boreale, V. cespitosum, V. corymbosum, V. crassifolium, V. darrowii, V. deliciosum, V. hirsutum, V. macrocarpon, V. membranaceum, V. myrsinites, V. myrtilloides, V. myrtillus, V. ovalifolium, V. ovatum, V. oxycoccos, V. pallidum, V. parvifolium, V. scoparium, V. stamineum, V. tenellum, V. uliginosum, V. vitis-idaea
Subordinate taxa
V. erythrocarpum subsp. erythrocarpum
Synonyms Cyanococcus tenellus Hugeria erythrocarpa, Oxycoccus erectus
Name authority Aiton: Hort. Kew. 2: 12. 1789 , Michaux: Fl. Bor.-Amer. 1: 227. (1803)
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