Vaccinium erythrocarpum subsp. erythrocarpum

Treatment appears in FNA Volume 8. Treatment on page 517.

Plants crown-forming (sometimes suckering or rhizomatous when injured); twigs of current season ± terete, smooth, hairy in lines. Leaf blades green, elliptic or ovate to oblong-lanceolate, 40–70 × 15–30 mm, membranous, margins serrulate, abaxial surface glandular-hairy. Inflorescence bracts caducous, 2, basal. Pedicels nodding, to 1.5 cm, glabrous. Flowers: calyx lobes to 1 mm, glabrous; corolla deeply reflexed, white, pink, or rarely red; filaments pilose. Berries red, deep purple, or black, 6–15 mm diam., glabrous. 2n = 24.


Phenology: Flowering late spring-mid summer.
Habitat: Wooded slopes, subalpine shrub lands, boggy areas, rocky slopes and thickets
Elevation: 600-2000 m

Distribution

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Ga., N.C., Tenn., Va., W.Va.

Discussion

Selected References

None.

Lower Taxa

None.
Sam P. Vander Kloet +
Michaux +
Ga. +, N.C. +, Tenn. +, Va. +  and W.Va. +
600-2000 m +
Wooded slopes, subalpine shrub lands, boggy areas, rocky slopes and thickets +
Flowering late spring-mid summer. +
Fl. Bor.-Amer. +
Hugeria erythrocarpa +  and Oxycoccus erectus +
Vaccinium erythrocarpum subsp. erythrocarpum +
Vaccinium erythrocarpum +
subspecies +