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WEAKLEY'S FLORA OF THE SOUTHEASTERN US (4/14/23):
Gaylussacia brachycera   FAMILY Ericaceae   Go to FSUS key



SYNONYMOUS WITH PLANTS NATIONAL DATABASE:
Gaylussacia brachycera   FAMILY Ericaceae

SYNONYMOUS WITH Floristic Synthesis of North America. BONAP (Kartesz, 2021)

Gaylussacia brachycera

SYNONYMOUS WITH Flora of North America north of Mexico, vol. 8 (2009)

Gaylussacia brachycera

SYNONYMOUS WITH Floristic Synthesis of North America (Kartesz, 1999)

Gaylussacia brachycera

SYNONYMOUS WITH (THE GENUS NAME PREOCCUPIED) Manual of the Southeastern Flora (Small, 1933, 1938)

Buxella brachycera

SYNONYMOUS WITH Andre Michaux

Vaccinium brachycerum

 

COMMON NAME:
Box Huckleberry


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image of Gaylussacia brachycera, Box Huckleberry

USDA-NRCS PLANTS Database / Britton, N.L., and A. Brown. 1913    pnd_gabr5_001_lvd

        

 

 

WEAKLEY'S FLORA OF THE SOUTHEASTERN US (4/14/23):
Gaylussacia brachycera   FAMILY Ericaceae

SYNONYMOUS WITH PLANTS NATIONAL DATABASE:
Gaylussacia brachycera   FAMILY Ericaceae

SYNONYMOUS WITH Floristic Synthesis of North America. BONAP (Kartesz, 2021)
Gaylussacia brachycera

SYNONYMOUS WITH Flora of North America north of Mexico, vol. 8
Gaylussacia brachycera

SYNONYMOUS WITH Floristic Synthesis of North America (Kartesz, 1999)
Gaylussacia brachycera

SYNONYMOUS WITH (THE GENUS NAME PREOCCUPIED) Manual of the Southeastern Flora (Small, 1933, 1938)
Buxella brachycera

SYNONYMOUS WITH Andre Michaux
Vaccinium brachycerum

 

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595

Shrub; Subshrub
Perennial

Habitat: Dry, acidic ridgetops and upper slopes, locally forming large clones, in the Coastal Plain in dry sandy soils, per Weakley's Flora

Native to North Carolina

Rare in NC

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LEAVES:
Evergreen
Simple
Alternate

FLOWER:
Spring/Summer
White/Pinkish
Radially symmetrical
4-5 lobed calyx
4-5 lobed globular-urceolate corolla
10 included stamens
Inferior ovary
Bisexual

Flowers in axillary racemes on 2nd-year wood

FRUIT:
Summer
Blue
Berry

 

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