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



SYNONYMOUS WITH PLANTS NATIONAL DATABASE:
Gaylussacia nana   FAMILY Ericaceae

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

Gaylussacia nana

INCLUDED WITHIN Guide to the Vascular Plants of Florida (Wunderlin & Hansen, 2011)

Gaylussacia frondosa var. tomentosa

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

Gaylussacia nana

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

Gaylussacia nana

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

Gaylussacia frondosa var. nana

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

Decachaena nana

 

COMMON NAME:
Dwarf Dangleberry, Confederate Huckleberry


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

SYNONYMOUS WITH PLANTS NATIONAL DATABASE:
Gaylussacia nana   FAMILY Ericaceae

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

INCLUDED WITHIN Guide to the Vascular Plants of Florida (Wunderlin & Hansen, 2011)
Gaylussacia frondosa var. tomentosa

SYNONYMOUS WITH Flora of North America north of Mexico, vol. 8
Gaylussacia nana

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

SYNONYMOUS WITH Aquatic & Wetland Plants of Southeastern US (Godfrey & Wooten, 1979 & 1981)
Gaylussacia frondosa var. nana

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

 

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4857

Shrub
Perennial

Habitat: Xeric longleaf pine sandhills, pine flatwoods, pocosin ecotones, pine savannas, per Weakley's Flora

Native to the Carolinas & Georgia

Common in GA, uncommon in SC, rare in NC

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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
Dark blue, sometimes black
Berry

 

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