Spermatophytes (seed plants): Angiosperms (flowering plants): Eudicots: Core Eudicots: Asterids: Ericales
WEAKLEY'S FLORA (11/30/12):
Gaylussacia baccata
FAMILY
Ericaceae
Dig deeper at SERNEC, a consortium of southeastern herbaria.
Read more about Black Huckleberry at Vascular Plants of North Carolina.
SYNONYMOUS WITH
PLANTS NATIONAL DATABASE:
Gaylussacia baccata
FAMILY
Ericaceae
SYNONYMOUS WITH
VASCULAR FLORA OF THE CAROLINAS (Radford, Ahles, & Bell, 1968) 145-18-004:
Gaylussacia baccata
FAMILY
Ericaceae
SYNONYMOUS WITH
Manual of the Southeastern Flora (Small, 1933, 1938)
Decachaena baccata
COMMON NAME:
Black Huckleberry, Crackleberry
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USDA-NRCS PLANTS Database / Britton, N.L., and A. Brown. 1913 pnd_gaba_001_lvd
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USDA-NRCS PLANTS Database / US Forest Service pnd_gaba_002_lhd
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USDA-NRCS PLANTS Database / USDA Wetland flora: Field office illustrated guide pnd_gaba_004_lvd
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Patrick D. McMillan pdmgbaccata_habitpc1
April Pickens County SC
Poe Creek State Forest
Much-branched colonial shrub to 3-8 dm tall, per Native Shrubs and Woody Vines of the Southeast.
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Patrick D. McMillan pdmgbaccata_pc1
April Pickens County SC
Poe Creek State Forest
Flowers reddish, narrow (narrower than G. dumosa), per Woody Plants of the Blue Ridge.
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Patrick D. McMillan pdmgbaccata_pc3
April Pickens County SC
Poe Creek State Forest
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JK Marlow jkm140519_024
May Jackson County NC
Big Ridge Preserve
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JK Marlow jkm160504_375
May Jackson County NC
Panthertown
Flowers in axillary racemes on second-year wood, racemes 0.5-1.5cm long, per Vascular Flora of the Carolinas.
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JK Marlow jkm160504_376
May Jackson County NC
Panthertown
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JK Marlow jkm160504_377
May Jackson County NC
Panthertown
Sepals 0.7-1mm, glabrous, sessile-glandular, per Flora of North America.
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JK Marlow jkm160504_379
May Jackson County NC
Panthertown
Lvs w tiny resinous dots above & below, visible when held at angle to light, per Woody Plants of the Blue Ridge.
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Patrick D. McMillan pdmgbaccata_gf1
Month Unknown Avery County NC
Grandfather Mountain
WEAKLEY'S FLORA (11/30/12):
Gaylussacia baccata
FAMILY
Ericaceae
SYNONYMOUS WITH
PLANTS NATIONAL DATABASE:
Gaylussacia baccata
FAMILY
Ericaceae
SYNONYMOUS WITH
VASCULAR FLORA OF THE CAROLINAS (Radford, Ahles, & Bell, 1968) 145-18-004:
Gaylussacia baccata
FAMILY
Ericaceae
SYNONYMOUS WITH
Manual of the Southeastern Flora (Small, 1933, 1938)
Decachaena baccata
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Shrub
Perennial
Native to the Carolinas & Georgia
Documented growing wild in GA NC SC
Common in Mountains, uncommon elsewhere in GA-NC-SC
Look for it in xeric, acidic forests and woodlands, rock outcrops, to 1600m elevation, 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.
...Dry
LEAVES:
Deciduous
Simple
Alternate
FLOWER:
Spring/Summer
Reddish/Greenish
Bisexual
Radially symmetrical
5-lobed calyx
4-5 lobed urceolate to urceolate-campanulate corolla
10 included stamens
Inferior ovary
Flowers in axillary racemes on 2nd-year wood
FRUIT:
Summer
Black/Rarely blue or white
Berry
TO LEARN MORE about this plant, look it up in a good book!
- Gardening with Native Plants of the South p095
- Native Shrubs and Woody Vines of the Southeast p113
- Newcomb's Wildflower Guide p298
- Woody Plants of the Blue Ridge p28
- Woody Plants of the Southeastern US: A Winter Guide p150