Contains 17 accepted taxa overall.
Characteristics
Classification
Citation
VACCINIUM Linnaeus, Sp. Pl. 349. 1753, nom. cons.
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TYPE: Vaccinium uliginosum Linnaeus, typ. cons.
Species
| Scientific Name | Common Name | Herbarium Specimens | Status | Photos |
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| Vaccinium altomontanum | Blue Ridge Blueberry | |||
| Vaccinium arboreum | Farkleberry, Sparkleberry | |||
| Vaccinium caesariense | New Jersey Highbush Blueberry | |||
| Vaccinium corymbosum | Smooth Highbush Blueberry | |||
| Vaccinium crassifolium | Creeping Blueberry | |||
| Vaccinium elliottii | Mayberry | |||
| Vaccinium formosum | Southern Highbush Blueberry, Swamp Highbush Blueberry | |||
| Vaccinium fuscatum | Hairy Highbush Blueberry, Black Highbush Blueberry | |||
| Vaccinium myrsinites | Southern Evergreen Blueberry | |||
| Vaccinium pallidum | Hillside Blueberry, Dryland Blueberry | |||
| Vaccinium sempervirens | Rayner's Blueberry | |||
| Vaccinium simulatum | Mountain Highbush Blueberry | |||
| Vaccinium stamineum var. caesium | Florida Deerberry, Whiteleaf Deerberry | |||
| Vaccinium stamineum var. sericeum | Southern Deerberry | |||
| Vaccinium stamineum var. stamineum | Common Deerberry | |||
| Vaccinium tenellum | Southern Blueberry, Small Cluster Blueberry | |||
| Vaccinium virgatum | Swamp Blueberry, Rabbiteye Blueberry |
Identification Key
1. Larger leaf blades 0.5-3(3.7) cm long
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1. Larger leaf blades (2.5)3-7 cm long
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2. Shrubs to 3 m tall; larger leaf blades (1.5)2-3(3.7) cm long, serrulate-ciliate to entire, secondary veins 3-7 per side, deciduous (diploid; panhandle and northern peninsula)
2. Low shrubs to 1.5 m tall; larger leaf blades <1.5(2) cm long, crenulate-serrate to entire, secondary veins 2-4 per side, persistent
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3. Leaf blade lower surface eglandular (or very rare, very few on few leaves, marginal teeth may have glands); young stems, leaves, hypanthium, and fruit usually glaucous (diploid; widespread)
3. Leaf blade lower surface stipitate-glandular; young stems, leaves, hypanthium, and fruit not glaucous (tetraploid; widespread)
4. Young stems, usually by the second- to fifth-year, roughened-verrucose (often obscure)
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4. Young stems not verrucose
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5. Leaf blade lower surface stipitate-glandular
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5. Leaf blade lower surface eglandular
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6. Plants <1.3 m tall; stipitate glands mostly with clavate- to ellipsoid-cylindrical heads (diploid)
6. Plants 0.3-4(7) m tall; stipitate glands mostly with obovoid to globose heads (hexaploid)
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7. Plants 1-4.5(7) m tall; leaf blades coriacous, bluish or glaucous, lower surface sparsely stipitate-glandular, occasionally moderately dense, eglandular hairs 0.3-0.5(0.6) mm long; hypanthium usually glaucous; fruits 8-16 mm wide
7. Plants 0.3-2.5 m tall; leaf blades chartaceous, green, lower surface usually moderately densely stipitate-glandular, eglandular hairs 0.4-1 mm long; hypanthium not glaucous; fruit 4-12 mm wide
8. Flowers 5-6 mm long; fruits 5-8 mm wide (diploid; northern Florida; V. atrococcum)
8. Flowers 6-11 mm long; fruit 6-12 mm wide
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9. Stems and leaves glabrous to pubescent; leaves 6-8 cm long, 2.5-4 cm wide (tetraploid; panhandle and northern peninsula; V. australe, V. arkansanum)
9. Stems and leaves pubescent; leaves 3.5-5 cm long, 1.5-2.5 cm wide (tetraploid; widespread)
10. Bark often becoming flaky-rectangular; leaf blade upper surface lustrous with conspicuous venation, the lower surface light green, the blade base often acute, often stipitate glandular; hypanthium jointed with the pedicel; corolla closed in bud; anthers included (widespread)
10. Bark usually tight to peeling in strips; leaf blade upper surface dull with obscure venation, the lower surface glaucous or not, the blade base often rounded to subcordate, stipitate-glandular or not; hypanthium continuous with the pedicel; corolla open in bud; anthers exserted (widespread) (V. stamineum)
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11. Stems and pedicels densely stipitate-glandular (panhandle and northwestern peninsula)
11. Stems and pedicels eglandular or sparsely stipitate-glandular
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12. Hypanthium and fruit glabrous
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12. Hypanthium and fruit pubescent
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13. Leaf blade lower surface usually whitened-glaucous; flowers solitary, scattered, subtended by slightly reduced to normal-sized leaves (widespread in Florida)
13. Leaf blade lower surface not whitened-glaucous; flowers in distinct inflorescences, subtended by greatly reduced leaves (panhandle)
14. Flowers in axils of normal-sized leaves; calyx and hypanthium sparingly pubescent, eglandular (panhandle)
14. Flowers usually in axils of greatly reduced leaves; calyx and hypanthium densely hirsute and often stipitate-glandular (panhandle, rare in peninsula)
Genus Synonyms
| Synonym | Full Citation | Basionym | Type |
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| No synonyms found. | |||