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Spermatophytes (seed plants): Angiosperms (flowering plants): Eudicots: Core Eudicots: Asterids: Ericales

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



SYNONYMOUS WITH PLANTS NATIONAL DATABASE:
Vaccinium angustifolium   FAMILY Ericaceae

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

Vaccinium angustifolium

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

Vaccinium angustifolium

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

Vaccinium angustifolium

 

COMMON NAME:
Northern Lowbush Blueberry, Sugarberry, Low Sweet Blueberry


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image of Vaccinium angustifolium, Northern Lowbush Blueberry, Sugarberry, Low Sweet Blueberry

USDA-NRCS PLANTS Database / Britton, N.L., and A. Brown. 1913    pnd_vaan_001_lvd

        

 

 

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

SYNONYMOUS WITH PLANTS NATIONAL DATABASE:
Vaccinium angustifolium   FAMILY Ericaceae

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

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

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

 

Find by SCIENTIFIC NAME:

4880

Shrub
Perennial

Habitat: Acidic forests and woodlands, cliffs and talus (especially sandstone and quartzite), usually at high elevations, per Weakley's Flora

Native to North Carolina

Rare

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LEAVES:
Deciduous
Simple
Alternate
Margins finely serrulate

FLOWER:
Spring/Summer
White/Pinkish
5-lobed calyx
5-lobed cylindro-urceolate corolla
10 stamens
Inferior ovary
Bisexual

FRUIT:
Spring/Summer?
Black or blue
Berry

 

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