OF THE CAROLINAS & GEORGIA

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

WEAKLEY'S FLORA (5/21/15):
 Gaylussacia brachycera   FAMILY Ericaceae

SYNONYMOUS WITH PLANTS NATIONAL DATABASE:
Gaylussacia brachycera   FAMILY Ericaceae

SYNONYMOUS WITH (MISAPPLIED) (MISIDENTIFIED) VASCULAR FLORA OF THE CAROLINAS (Radford, Ahles, & Bell, 1968) 145-18-001:
 Gaylussacia brachycera   FAMILY Ericaceae

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 (5/21/15):
 Gaylussacia brachycera   FAMILY Ericaceae

SYNONYMOUS WITH PLANTS NATIONAL DATABASE:
Gaylussacia brachycera   FAMILY Ericaceae

SYNONYMOUS WITH (MISAPPLIED) (MISIDENTIFIED) VASCULAR FLORA OF THE CAROLINAS (Radford, Ahles, & Bell, 1968) 145-18-001:
 Gaylussacia brachycera   FAMILY Ericaceae

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

SYNONYMOUS WITH Andre Michaux
 Vaccinium brachycerum

 

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595

Shrub; Subshrub
Perennial

Native to North Carolina

Documented growing wild in - NC -

Rare in NC

Look for it in dry, acidic ridgetops and upper slopes, 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.

 

...Dry

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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