Contains 5 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 | Status | Photos |
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| Vaccinium arboreum | SPARKLEBERRY; FARKLEBERRY | Native FACU (NWPL) | |
| Vaccinium corymbosum | HIGHBUSH BLUEBERRY | Native FACW (NWPL) T (WAP) FACW (DEP) | |
| Vaccinium darrowii | DARROW'S BLUEBERRY | Native FACU (NWPL) | |
| Vaccinium myrsinites | SHINY BLUEBERRY | Native FACU (NWPL) U (WAP) | |
| Vaccinium stamineum | DEERBERRY | Native FACU (NWPL) |
[Family identification key]
1. Larger leaf blades 0.5-3(3.5) 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)2-3.5 cm long, serrulate-ciliate to entire, secondary veins 3-7 per side, deciduous (panhandle and northern peninsula)
2. Low shrubs to 1.5 m tall; larger leaf blades <1.5 cm long, crenulate-serrate to entire, secondary veins 2-4 per side, persistent
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3. Leaf blade lower surface eglandular; young stems, leaves, hypanthium, and fruit usually glaucous (widespread)
3. Leaf blade lower surface stipitate-glandular; young stems, leaves, hypanthium, and fruit not glaucous (widespread)
4. Young stems roughened-verrucose (often obscure)
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4. Young stems not verrucose
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5. Leaf blade lower surface stipitate-glandular (panhandle and northern peninsula; V. amoenum and V. ashei of Ward 1974)
5. Leaf blades eglandular
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6. Stems and leaves glabrous; fruit bluish, glaucous, sweet (panhandle and northern peninsula; V. australe of Ward 1974)
6. Stems and leaves pubescent; fruit blackish, not glaucous, insipid to sour (widespread)
7. 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)
7. Bark usually tight to peeling in strips; leaf blade upper surface dull with obscure venation, the lower surface glaucous or not (widespread), the blade base often rounded to subcordate, stipitate-glandular or not; hypanthium continuous with the pedicel; corolla open in bud; anthers exserted (V. stamineum)
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8. Stems and pedicels densely stipitate-glandular (panhandle and northwestern peninsula)
8. Stems and pedicels eglandular or sparsely stipitate-glandular
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9. Hypanthium and fruit glabrous
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9. Hypanthium and fruit pubescent
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10. Leaf blade lower surface usually whitened-glaucous; flowers solitary, scattered, subtended by slightly reduced to normal-sized leaves (widespread in Florida)
10. Leaf blade lower surface not whitened-glaucous; flowers in distinct inflorescences, subtended by greatly reduced leaves (panhandle)
11. Flowers in axils of normal-sized leaves; calyx and hypanthium sparingly pubescent, eglandular (panhandle)
11. Flowers usually in axils of greatly reduced leaves; calyx and hypanthium densely hirsute and often stipitate-glandular (panhandle, rare in peninsula)