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Vaccinium vacillans

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Name

Identification
Vaccinium vacillans Kalm ex Torr. [family ERICACEAE ] (stored under name); Verified by Not on sheet, Vaccinium vacillans Kalm ex Torr. [family ERICACEAE ] Verified by Not on sheet,
Related name
  • Vaccinium vacillans
Common name
  • Blue Ridge or late low-bush blueberry, Flora of North America Vol. 8

Flora

Entry for Vaccinium pallidum Aiton [family ERICACEAE]
Herbarium
Flora of North America (FNA)
Collection
Flora of North America
Resource Type
Reference Sources
Entry From
Flora of North America, Vol 8,
Names
Vaccinium pallidum Aiton [family ERICACEAE], Hort. Kew., 2: 10. 1789 ,
Cyanococcus liparis Small [family ]
Cyanococcus margarettae (Ashe) Small [family ]
Cyanococcus pallidus (Aiton) Small [family ]
Cyanococcus subcordatus Small [family ]
Cyanococcus tallapusae Coville ex Small [family ]
Cyanococcus vacillans (Kalm ex Torrey) Rydberg [family ]
Vaccinium altomontanum Ashe [family ERICACEAE]
Vaccinium corymbosum Linnaeus var. pallidum (Aiton) A. Gray [family ERICACEAE]
Vaccinium margarettae Ashe [family ERICACEAE]
Vaccinium vacillans Kalm ex Torrey [family ERICACEAE]
Vaccinium vacillans var. crinitum Fernald [family ERICACEAE]
Vaccinium vacillans var. missouriense Ashe [family ERICACEAE]
Vaccinium viride Ashe [family ERICACEAE]
Treatment Author(s)
Sam P. Vander Kloet
Information
Plants forming small to extensive, open colonies, 0.8–10 dm; twigs green, glaucous, or yellow, ± angled, hairy in lines, often glabrous. Leaves deciduous; blade pale green or glaucous abaxially, dark green adaxially, ovate to broadly elliptic, 25–38 × 13–22 mm, membranous to subcoriaceous, margins ± entire, abaxial surface usually glabrous, rarely hairy, eglandular. Flowers: calyx green, glaucous, glabrous; corolla greenish white with pink striping, cylindro-urceolate, 4–10 mm; filaments ± glabrous. Berries usually blue, glaucous, 4–8 mm diam., glabrous. Seeds 5–20, ca. 1 mm. 2n = 24, 48.
Phenology
Flowering mid–late spring
Altitude range
0–1600 m
Distribution
USA Ala.USA Ark.USA Conn.USA Del.USA D.C.USA Ga.USA Ill.USA Ind.USA Kans.USA Ky.USA MaineUSA Md.USA Mass.USA Mich.USA Miss.USA Mo.USA N.H.USA N.J.USA N.Y.USA N.C.USA OhioUSA Okla.USA Pa.USA R.I.USA S.C.USA Tenn.USA Vt.USA Va.USA W.Va.USA Wis.Canada Ont.
Discussion
The flowers of Vaccinium pallidum are visited primarily by Andrena carlini Cockerell and Bombus spp. This species occasionally hybridizes with V. angustifolium, yielding V. ×dobbinii Burnham.

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