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Section: Cyanococcus
WEAKLEY'S FLORA OF THE SOUTHEASTERN US (4/14/23):
Vaccinium corymbosum
FAMILY
Ericaceae
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Dig deeper at SERNEC, a consortium of southeastern herbaria.
Read more about Smooth Highbush Blueberry at Vascular Plants of North Carolina.
Note that this treatment recognizes 2 species (V. formosum and V. caesariense) included within V. corymbosum by some other authors. V. formosum is the common "corymbosum" type blueberry of the Coastal Plain. Read more in Weakley's Flora (2023).
SYNONYMOUS WITH
PLANTS NATIONAL DATABASE:
Vaccinium corymbosum
FAMILY
Ericaceae
SYNONYMOUS WITH Floristic Synthesis of North America. BONAP (Kartesz, 2021)
Vaccinium corymbosum
INCLUDED WITHIN Flora of North America north of Mexico, vol. 8 (2009)
Vaccinium corymbosum
SYNONYMOUS WITH Floristic Synthesis of North America (Kartesz, 1999)
Vaccinium corymbosum
SYNONYMOUS WITH The genus Vaccinium L. (Ericaceae) in Virginia (Uttal, 1987)
Vaccinium corymbosum
INCLUDED WITHIN VASCULAR FLORA OF THE CAROLINAS (Radford, Ahles, & Bell, 1968) 145-19-008:
Vaccinium corymbosum FAMILY Ericaceae
INCLUDED WITHIN Britton & Brown Illus Flora of Northeast US & adjacent Canada (Gleason, 1952)
Vaccinium constablaei
SYNONYMOUS WITH Manual of the Southeastern Flora (Small, 1933, 1938)
Cyanococcus corymbosus
COMMON NAME:
Smooth Highbush Blueberry, Northern Highbush Blueberry
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USDA-NRCS PLANTS Database / Britton, N.L., and A. Brown. 1913 pnd_vaco_001_lvd
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USDA-NRCS PLANTS Database / USDA Wetland flora: Field office illustrated guide pnd_vaco_003_lvd
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JK Marlow jkm160402_017
April Greenville County SC
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JK Marlow jkm120505_022
May Rabun County GA
Chattahoochee National Forest
Apparently not reliably identifiable based on morphology, per Weakley's Flora.
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JK Marlow jkm120505_027
May Rabun County GA
Chattahoochee National Forest
42 species of bees have been observed visiting highbush blueberry flowers, per Wildflowers & Plant Communities of the Southern Appalachian Mountains and Piedmont (Spira, 2011).
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JK Marlow jkm150606_227
June Watauga County NC
Blue Ridge Parkway
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JK Marlow jkm150606_231
June Watauga County NC
Blue Ridge Parkway
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JK Marlow jkm200625_6069
June Transylvania County NC
DuPont State Forest
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JK Marlow jkm200625_6071
June Transylvania County NC
DuPont State Forest
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Patrick D. McMillan pdmvcorymbosum_brp234
June Alleghaney County NC
Blue Ridge Parkway
Fruit blue, with glaucous bloom, per Woody Plants of the Blue Ridge (Lance).
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Patrick D. McMillan pdmvcorymbosum_cg2
June
Urn-shaped white flowers open after some development of new leaves, per Woody Plants of the Blue Ridge (Lance).
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Patrick D. McMillan pdmvcorymbosum_cg3
June
Calyx lobes triangular-ovate and spreading, per Vascular Flora of the Carolinas (Radford, Ahles, & Bell, 1968).
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JK Marlow jkm181101_5458
November Greenville County SC
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JK Marlow jkm181102_5484
November Greenville County SC
WEAKLEY'S FLORA OF THE SOUTHEASTERN US (4/14/23):
Vaccinium corymbosum
FAMILY
Ericaceae
SYNONYMOUS WITH
PLANTS NATIONAL DATABASE:
Vaccinium corymbosum
FAMILY
Ericaceae
SYNONYMOUS WITH
Floristic Synthesis of North America. BONAP (Kartesz, 2021)
Vaccinium corymbosum
INCLUDED WITHIN
Flora of North America north of Mexico, vol. 8
Vaccinium corymbosum
SYNONYMOUS WITH
Floristic Synthesis of North America (Kartesz, 1999)
Vaccinium corymbosum
SYNONYMOUS WITH
The genus Vaccinium L. (Ericaceae) in Virginia (Uttal, 1987)
Vaccinium corymbosum
INCLUDED WITHIN
VASCULAR FLORA OF THE CAROLINAS (Radford, Ahles, & Bell, 1968) 145-19-008:
Vaccinium corymbosum
FAMILY
Ericaceae
INCLUDED WITHIN
Britton & Brown Illus Flora of Northeast US & adjacent Canada (Gleason, 1952)
Vaccinium constablaei
SYNONYMOUS WITH
Manual of the Southeastern Flora (Small, 1933, 1938)
Cyanococcus corymbosus
1580
Shrub
Perennial
Habitat: bogs, wet swamp forests, moist high elevation bogs, balds, and forests, per Weakley's Flora
Native to the Carolinas & Georgia
Common in Mountains (rare in Piedmont)
CLICK HERE to see a map, notes, and images from Weakley's Flora of the Southeastern US.
LEAVES:
Deciduous
Simple
Alternate
Margins mostly entire
FLOWER:
Spring
White
5-lobed calyx
5-lobed urceolate corolla
10 stamens
Inferior ovary
Bisexual
FRUIT:
Summer
Blue
Berry
TO LEARN MORE about this plant, look it up in a good book!
- Gardening with Native Plants of the South (Wasowski & Wasowski, 1994, 2020) p072
- Gardening with the Native Plants of Tennessee (Hunter, 2002) p263
- How to Recognize Shrubs (Grimm, 1966) p244
- Native Alternatives to Invasive Plants p085
- Native Shrubs and Woody Vines of the Southeast (Foote & Jones, 1989) p116
- Newcomb's Wildflower Guide (Newcomb, 1977) p298
- Wildflowers of the Carolina Lowcountry (Porcher, 1995) p114
- Wild Flowers of NC, 2nd edition (Justice, Bell, & Lindsey, 2005) p187
- Field Guide to the Wildflowers of Georgia (Chafin, 2016) p174
- Wildflowers of Tennessee, the Ohio Valley, and the Southern Appalachians (Horn, Cathcart, Hemmerly, & Duhl, 2005) p131
- Woody Plants of the Blue Ridge (Lance) p29
- Wildflowers & Plant Communities of the Southern Appalachian Mountains and Piedmont (Spira, 2011) p317
- Woody Plants of the Southeastern US: A Winter Guide (Lance, 2004) p362
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