Compilation
Vaccinium pensylvanicum

an evergreen shrub, 2–6 ft. high, very apt to send up suckers from the roots; stem erect, ranging up to 6 in. thick, terete, much branched; bark thin, glabrous, grey or purplish, smooth; branches scattered, erect or erect-patent, virgate; branchlets comparatively slender, densely leafy; young parts pilose; leaves alternate, narrowly elliptic, usually narrowed at both ends, entire, thinly coriaceous, rigid, flat, glossy above, at length glabrous, subsessile, myrtle-like, 1/2–1 3/8 in. long, 1/7– 1/3 in. broad; flowers hermaphrodite or polygamous, nodding, whitish, numerous, 1/5– 1/4 in. long; peduncles axillary, slender, hairy, arching, 1–5-flowered, usually about as long as the leaves; pedicels as long as or shorter than the common peduncle; bracts lanceolate; calyx 5-partite, hairy, persistent, 1/8– 1/6 in. long, slightly accrescent in fruit; segments lanceolate or lanceolate-subulate, acute, erect; corolla urceolate-campanulate, glabrous, 5-cleft nearly to the middle; lobes ovate-oblong, obtuse, spreading or recurved; tube pentagonal; stamens usually 10, bearded, oblong, about 1/13 in. long, not always fertile; filaments very short; glands about the base of the ovary very small; ovary subglobose or ovoid-conical, nearly glabrous, 4-celled; style bilobed, hairy below, together with the ovary about 1/9 in. long; stigmas obtuse, emarginate; fruit globose or oblong, thinly glandular-pubescent, purple or reddish, 1/3– 2/3 in. long; fruiting calyx subglabrate, usually reflexed, 1/6– 1/3 in. long; seed usually solitary, spheroidal, black. null