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WEAKLEY'S FLORA OF THE SOUTHEASTERN US (4/24/22):
Gaylussacia frondosa   FAMILY Ericaceae   Go to FSUS key



SYNONYMOUS WITH PLANTS NATIONAL DATABASE:
Gaylussacia frondosa   FAMILY Ericaceae

SYNONYMOUS WITH Flora of North America

Gaylussacia frondosa

SYNONYMOUS WITH VASCULAR FLORA OF THE CAROLINAS (Radford, Ahles, & Bell, 1968) 145-18-003a:

Gaylussacia frondosa var. frondosa   FAMILY Ericaceae

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

Decachaena frondosa

 

COMMON NAME:
Dangleberry


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image of Gaylussacia frondosa, Dangleberry

USDA-NRCS PLANTS Database / Britton, N.L., and A. Brown. 1913    pnd_gafr2_001_lvd

        

image of Gaylussacia frondosa, Dangleberry

USDA-NRCS PLANTS Database / USDA Wetland flora: Field office illustrated guide    pnd_gafr2_003_lvd

        

image of Gaylussacia frondosa, Dangleberry

JK Marlow    jkm060423_028

April    Charleston County    SC

Francis Marion National Forest

Leaves subcoriaceous, yellow-green to glaucous, w obtuse to emarginate apices, per Weakley's Flora.

image of Gaylussacia frondosa, Dangleberry

JK Marlow    jkm060423_029

April    Charleston County    SC

Francis Marion National Forest

Young twigs glabrous, per Weakley's Flora.

image of Gaylussacia frondosa, Dangleberry

JK Marlow    jkm060423_029b

April    Charleston County    SC

Francis Marion National Forest

Flowers greenish-white to pinkish, bracts small, stalks short-hairy, per Forest Plants of the Southeast and Their Wildlife Uses (Miller & Miller, 2005).

image of Gaylussacia frondosa, Dangleberry

Patrick D. McMillan    pdmgfrondosa_cabin1

April-May?    Clarendon County    SC

Leaves glabrous or pubescent beneath, often glaucous, per Weakley's Flora.

image of Gaylussacia frondosa, Dangleberry

Patrick D. McMillan    pdmgfrondosa_cabin2

April-May?    Clarendon County    SC

image of Gaylussacia frondosa, Dangleberry

Sharleen Johnson    shj_475774684679800

December    Charleston County    SC

Francis Marion National Forest

 

 

WEAKLEY'S FLORA OF THE SOUTHEASTERN US (4/24/22):
Gaylussacia frondosa   FAMILY Ericaceae

SYNONYMOUS WITH PLANTS NATIONAL DATABASE:
Gaylussacia frondosa   FAMILY Ericaceae

SYNONYMOUS WITH Flora of North America
Gaylussacia frondosa

SYNONYMOUS WITH VASCULAR FLORA OF THE CAROLINAS (Radford, Ahles, & Bell, 1968) 145-18-003a:
Gaylussacia frondosa var. frondosa   FAMILY Ericaceae

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

 

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Shrub
Perennial

Habitat: Mesic, acidic woodlands, especially in sandhill-pocosin and savanna-pocosin ecotones, also in xeric chestnut oak forests in the lower Piedmont, per Weakley's Flora

Native to the Carolinas

Common in Coastal Plain, uncommon in Piedmont

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LEAVES:
Deciduous
Simple
Alternate

FLOWER:
Spring
Greenish-white/Pinkish
Radially symmetrical
5-lobed calyx
5-lobed urceolate to urceolate-campanulate corolla
10 included stamens
Inferior ovary
Bisexual

Flowers in axillary racemes on 2nd-year wood

FRUIT:
Summer
Blue
Berry

 

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