Spermatophytes (seed plants): Angiosperms (flowering plants): Eudicots: Core Eudicots: Asterids: Ericales
Section: Cyanococcus
WEAKLEY'S FLORA OF THE SOUTHEASTERN US (4/14/23):
Vaccinium altomontanum
FAMILY
Ericaceae
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Dig deeper at SERNEC, a consortium of southeastern herbaria.
This a fairly distinctive, densely growing blueberry of high elevation exposed rocky places. Read more at Vascular Plants of North Carolina.
V. altomontanum differs from V. pallidum in forming tighter (often circular) clones, with taller plants (to 1m tall), the leaves thick in texture, often revolute, strictly glaucous and glabrous, and with excellent berries, per Weakley's Flora (2022)
INCLUDED WITHIN
PLANTS NATIONAL DATABASE:
Vaccinium pallidum
FAMILY
Ericaceae
INCLUDED WITHIN Floristic Synthesis of North America. BONAP (Kartesz, 2021)
Vaccinium pallidum
SYNONYMOUS WITH Flora of Virginia (Weakley, Ludwig & Townsend, 2012)
Vaccinium altomontanum
INCLUDED WITHIN Flora of North America north of Mexico, vol. 8 (2009)
Vaccinium pallidum
INCLUDED WITHIN Floristic Synthesis of North America (Kartesz, 1999)
Vaccinium pallidum
INCLUDED WITHIN VASCULAR FLORA OF THE CAROLINAS (Radford, Ahles, & Bell, 1968) 145-19-008?:
Vaccinium corymbosum FAMILY Ericaceae
SYNONYMOUS WITH (ORTHOGRAPHIC VARIANT) Britton & Brown Illus Flora of Northeast US & adjacent Canada (Gleason, 1952)
Vaccinium alto-montanum
INCLUDING, AS TO TYPE Manual of the Southeastern Flora (Small, 1933, 1938)
Cyanococcus liparis
INCLUDING Manual of the Southeastern Flora (Small, 1933, 1938)
Cyanococcus subcordatus
COMMON NAME:
Blue Ridge Blueberry
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WEAKLEY'S FLORA OF THE SOUTHEASTERN US (4/14/23):
Vaccinium altomontanum
FAMILY
Ericaceae
INCLUDED WITHIN
PLANTS NATIONAL DATABASE:
Vaccinium pallidum
FAMILY
Ericaceae
INCLUDED WITHIN
Floristic Synthesis of North America. BONAP (Kartesz, 2021)
Vaccinium pallidum
SYNONYMOUS WITH
Flora of Virginia (Weakley, Ludwig & Townsend, 2012)
Vaccinium altomontanum
INCLUDED WITHIN
Flora of North America north of Mexico, vol. 8
Vaccinium pallidum
INCLUDED WITHIN
Floristic Synthesis of North America (Kartesz, 1999)
Vaccinium pallidum
INCLUDED WITHIN
VASCULAR FLORA OF THE CAROLINAS (Radford, Ahles, & Bell, 1968) 145-19-008?:
Vaccinium corymbosum
FAMILY
Ericaceae
SYNONYMOUS WITH (ORTHOGRAPHIC VARIANT)
Britton & Brown Illus Flora of Northeast US & adjacent Canada (Gleason, 1952)
Vaccinium alto-montanum
INCLUDING, AS TO TYPE
Manual of the Southeastern Flora (Small, 1933, 1938)
Cyanococcus liparis
INCLUDING
Manual of the Southeastern Flora (Small, 1933, 1938)
Cyanococcus subcordatus
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