NameThatPlant.net: Vaccinium formosum

Spermatophytes (seed plants): Angiosperms (flowering plants): Eudicots: Core Eudicots: Asterids: Ericales
Section: Cyanococcus

WEAKLEY'S FLORA (5/21/15):
Vaccinium formosum FAMILY Ericaceae

Dig deeper at SERNEC, a consortium of southeastern herbaria.

Read more about Southern Highbush Blueberry at Vascular Plants of North Carolina.

SYNONYMOUS WITH PLANTS NATIONAL DATABASE:
Vaccinium formosum FAMILY Ericaceae

INCLUDED WITHIN VASCULAR FLORA OF THE CAROLINAS (Radford, Ahles, & Bell, 1968) 145-19-008?:
Vaccinium corymbosum FAMILY Ericaceae

SYNONYMOUS WITH Britton & Brown Illus Flora of Northeast US & adjacent Canada (Gleason, 1952)
Vaccinium australe

SYNONYMOUS WITH (MISAPPLIED) Manual of the Southeastern Flora (Small, 1933, 1938)
Cyanococcus virgatus

COMMON NAME:
Southern Highbush Blueberry, Swamp Highbush Blueberry

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image of Vaccinium formosum, Southern Highbush Blueberry, Swamp Highbush Blueberry

Patrick D. McMillan pdmvformosum_oceanbay1

May Horry County SC

Lewis Ocean Bay Heritage Preserve

Largest & arguably the highest quality fruit of native highbush blueberries, per Weakley's Flora (2012).

WEAKLEY'S FLORA (5/21/15):
Vaccinium formosum FAMILY Ericaceae

SYNONYMOUS WITH PLANTS NATIONAL DATABASE:
Vaccinium formosum FAMILY Ericaceae

INCLUDED WITHIN VASCULAR FLORA OF THE CAROLINAS (Radford, Ahles, & Bell, 1968) 145-19-008?:
Vaccinium corymbosum FAMILY Ericaceae

SYNONYMOUS WITH Britton & Brown Illus Flora of Northeast US & adjacent Canada (Gleason, 1952)
Vaccinium australe

SYNONYMOUS WITH (MISAPPLIED) Manual of the Southeastern Flora (Small, 1933, 1938)
Cyanococcus virgatus

2341

Shrub
Perennial

Native to the Carolinas & Georgia

Documented growing wild in GA NC SC

Common

Look for it in bogs, swamps (especially blackwater, or at least where away from strong alluvial influence), seepages, depression ponds (dolines), other moist ground, per Weakley's Flora

map
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 (almost evergreen in the Deep South)
Simple
Alternate

FLOWER:
Spring
White
Bisexual
5-lobed calyx
5-lobed urceolate corolla
10 stamens
Inferior ovary

FRUIT:
Summer
Blue
Berry

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