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Section: Cyanococcus    

WEAKLEY'S FLORA OF THE SOUTHEASTERN US (4/14/23):
Vaccinium darrowii   FAMILY Ericaceae   Go to FSUS key



SYNONYMOUS WITH PLANTS NATIONAL DATABASE:
Vaccinium darrowii   FAMILY Ericaceae

SYNONYMOUS WITH Floristic Synthesis of North America. BONAP (Kartesz, 2021)

Vaccinium darrowii

SYNONYMOUS WITH Flora of North America north of Mexico, vol. 8 (2009)

Vaccinium darrowii

SYNONYMOUS WITH Floristic Synthesis of North America (Kartesz, 1999)

Vaccinium darrowii

SYNONYMOUS WITH (ORTHOGRAPHIC VARIANT) Aquatic & Wetland Plants of Southeastern US (Godfrey & Wooten, 1979 & 1981)

Vaccinium darrowi

SYNONYMOUS WITH Manual of the Southeastern Flora (Small, 1933, 1938)

Cyanococcus myrsinites var. glaucum

 

COMMON NAME:
Darrow's Blueberry


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image of Vaccinium darrowii, Darrow's Blueberry

Patrick D. McMillan    pdmvdarrowii_ths

June        

Fruit glaucous, blue, and only 4-6mm in diameter, per Native Shrubs and Woody Vines of the Southeast (Foote & Jones, 1989).

image of Vaccinium darrowii, Darrow's Blueberry

Patrick D. McMillan    pdmvdarrowii_ths2

June        

image of Vaccinium darrowii, Darrow's Blueberry

Patrick D. McMillan    pdmvdarrowii_ths3

June        

Leaves markedly glaucous and bluish-green, lacking stalked glands beneath, per Native Shrubs and Woody Vines of the Southeast (Foote & Jones, 1989).

 

 

WEAKLEY'S FLORA OF THE SOUTHEASTERN US (4/14/23):
Vaccinium darrowii   FAMILY Ericaceae

SYNONYMOUS WITH PLANTS NATIONAL DATABASE:
Vaccinium darrowii   FAMILY Ericaceae

SYNONYMOUS WITH Floristic Synthesis of North America. BONAP (Kartesz, 2021)
Vaccinium darrowii

SYNONYMOUS WITH Flora of North America north of Mexico, vol. 8
Vaccinium darrowii

SYNONYMOUS WITH Floristic Synthesis of North America (Kartesz, 1999)
Vaccinium darrowii

SYNONYMOUS WITH (ORTHOGRAPHIC VARIANT) Aquatic & Wetland Plants of Southeastern US (Godfrey & Wooten, 1979 & 1981)
Vaccinium darrowi

SYNONYMOUS WITH Manual of the Southeastern Flora (Small, 1933, 1938)
Cyanococcus myrsinites var. glaucum

 

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1582

Shrub
Perennial

Habitat: pine flatwoods, per Weakley's Flora

Native to Georgia

Common in GA Coastal Plain

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LEAVES:
Evergreen
Simple
Alternate
Margins entire to remotely toothed

RHIZOMES? STOLONS?
Rhizomatous, forming clonal colonies

FLOWER:
Spring
Pink/White
5-lobed calyx
5-lobed narrowly urceolate corolla
10 stamens
Superior ovary
Bisexual

FRUIT:
Spring/Summer?
Black/Blue
Berry

 

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