Spermatophytes (seed plants): Angiosperms (flowering plants): Eudicots: Core Eudicots: Asterids: Ericales
Section: Oxycoccoides
WEAKLEY'S FLORA (5/21/15):
Vaccinium erythrocarpum
FAMILY
Ericaceae
Dig deeper at SERNEC, a consortium of southeastern herbaria.
Read more about Bearberry at Vascular Plants of North Carolina.
SYNONYMOUS WITH
PLANTS NATIONAL DATABASE:
Vaccinium erythrocarpum
FAMILY
Ericaceae
SYNONYMOUS WITH
Flora of North America
Vaccinium erythrocarpum ssp. erythrocarpum
SYNONYMOUS WITH
VASCULAR FLORA OF THE CAROLINAS (Radford, Ahles, & Bell, 1968) 145-19-013:
Vaccinium erythrocarpum
FAMILY
Ericaceae
SYNONYMOUS WITH
Manual of the Southeastern Flora (Small, 1933, 1938)
Hugeria erythrocarpa
COMMON NAME:
Bearberry, Highbush Cranberry, Southern Mountain Cranberry
To see larger pictures, click or hover over the thumbnails.
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USDA-NRCS PLANTS Database / Britton, N.L., and A. Brown. 1913 pnd_oxer_001_lvd
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Patrick D. McMillan pdmverythrocarpum_gfm2
June Avery County NC
Grandfather Mountain
Easily identified by its distinctive slender, red, 4-parted flowers, per Wild Flowers of NC, 2nd edition.
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Patrick D. McMillan pdmverythrocarpum_mm1
June Yancey County NC
Mount Mitchell
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Stephanie C. Brundage scb_062921otto32
June Macon County NC
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Stephanie C. Brundage scb_062921otto33
June Macon County NC
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JK Marlow jkm080924_077
September Transylvania County NC
Blue Ridge Parkway
Leaves finely serrate, glabrous, long-pointed. Fruit borne on long stalks, per Woody Plants of the Blue Ridge.
WEAKLEY'S FLORA (5/21/15):
Vaccinium erythrocarpum
FAMILY
Ericaceae
SYNONYMOUS WITH
PLANTS NATIONAL DATABASE:
Vaccinium erythrocarpum
FAMILY
Ericaceae
SYNONYMOUS WITH
Flora of North America
Vaccinium erythrocarpum ssp. erythrocarpum
SYNONYMOUS WITH
VASCULAR FLORA OF THE CAROLINAS (Radford, Ahles, & Bell, 1968) 145-19-013:
Vaccinium erythrocarpum
FAMILY
Ericaceae
SYNONYMOUS WITH
Manual of the Southeastern Flora (Small, 1933, 1938)
Hugeria erythrocarpa
1584
Shrub
Perennial
Native to North Carolina & Georgia
Documented growing wild in GA NC -
Uncommon (rare in GA), endemic to the Southern & Central Appalachians
Look for it on rocky ridges, in shrub or grassy balds, bogs, spruce-fir forests, usually at high elevations, per Weakley's Flora
Click here to see a more detailed map from University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill Herbarium,
or click here to see a map from SERNEC, a consortium of southeastern herbaria.
...Wet
...Moist
LEAVES:
Deciduous
Simple
Alternate
FLOWER:
Spring/Summer
Pink
Bisexual
4-lobed calyx
4-lobed corolla (lobes strongly recurved)
8 stamens
Inferior ovary
FRUIT:
Summer/Fall
Red to black
Berry
TO LEARN MORE about this plant, look it up in a good book!
- Native Shrubs and Woody Vines of the Southeast p117
- Wild Flowers of NC, 1st edition p140
- Wild Flowers of NC, 2nd edition p188
- Woody Plants of the Blue Ridge p29
- Woody Plants of the Southeastern US: A Winter Guide p364