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Subshrub; Trailing woody vine
Perennial

Native to South Carolina
Documented growing wild in - - SC

Rare, endemic to Lexington Co, SC, known from only a few sites

Look for it in seepage bogs in the fall-line Sandhills, longleaf pine woodlands over sandstone and gravel outcrops, per Weakley's Flora

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LEAVES:
Evergreen
Simple
Alternate

FLOWER:
Spring
White/Pink
Bisexual
5-lobed calyx
5-lobed globular-urceolate corolla
10 stamens
Superior ovary

FRUIT:
Summer
Black
Berry

TO LEARN MORE about this plant, look it up in a good book!

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

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

SYNONYMOUS WITH PLANTS NATIONAL DATABASE:
Vaccinium crassifolium ssp. sempervirens FAMILY Ericaceae

LESS THAN Flora of North America
Vaccinium crassifolium

COMMON NAME:
Rayner's Blueberry

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picture of Vaccinium sempervirens, image of Vaccinium crassifolium ssp. sempervirens, photograph of -

Keith Bradley kab_v_sempervirens_0615

April Lexington County SC

Peachtree Rock Heritage Preserve

Fine glandular teeth most obvious near leaf tips. Flowers white, urn-shaped, per Guide to the Wildflowers of SC.

"Despite what developers will tell you about restoration, she said, once a piece of land is graded, the biologic organisms and understructure of the soil are destroyed. 'No one knows how to easily re-create that, short of years of hand-weeding. Leaving land alone doesn't work; the natives are overwhelmed by the invaders.' Spot bulldozing is common... even on land that is supposedly protected. 'Much of this destruction is done out of expediency and ignorance.' She believed people are unlikely to value what they cannot name." — Richard Louv, Last Child in the Woods, quoting biologist Elaine Brooks