NameThatPlant.net: Gaylussacia brachycera

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

WEAKLEY'S FLORA OF THE SOUTHEASTERN US (4/24/22):
Gaylussacia brachycera FAMILY Ericaceae Go to FSUS key

Dig deeper at SERNEC, a consortium of southeastern herbaria.

Read more about Box Huckleberry at Vascular Plants of North Carolina.

The report in Radford, Ahles, & Bell (1968) is based on misidentification of plants later named as Vaccinium sempervirens, per Weakley's Flora (2022)

SYNONYMOUS WITH PLANTS NATIONAL DATABASE:
Gaylussacia brachycera FAMILY Ericaceae

SYNONYMOUS WITH Flora of North America
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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WEAKLEY'S FLORA OF THE SOUTHEASTERN US (4/24/22):
Gaylussacia brachycera FAMILY Ericaceae

SYNONYMOUS WITH PLANTS NATIONAL DATABASE:
Gaylussacia brachycera FAMILY Ericaceae

SYNONYMOUS WITH Flora of North America
Gaylussacia brachycera

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

SYNONYMOUS WITH Andre Michaux
Vaccinium brachycerum

595

Shrub; Subshrub
Perennial

Native to North Carolina

Rare in NC

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

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Click here to see a map showing all occurrences known to SERNEC, a consortium of southeastern herbaria. (Zoom in to see more detail.)

LEAVES:
Evergreen
Simple
Alternate

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

Flowers in axillary racemes on 2nd-year wood

FRUIT:
Summer
Blue
Berry

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