Vaccinium erythrocarpum
Vaccinium erythrocarpum – also commonly known as mountain blueberry,[4] southern mountain cranberry, bearberry, arando, and dingleberry[5] – is a species of cranberry.
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Vaccinium erythrocarpum has an oddly discontinuous distribution, with one subspecies in the southeastern United States and the other in east Asia.[6][3]
Vaccinium erythrocarpum is a deciduous shrub. Its flowers bloom in June; the individual flowers are hermaphrodite and are pollinated by insects. They produce scarlet, transparent berries. It grows in woodlands and areas of dappled shade.[6]
- Vaccinium erythrocarpum subsp. erythrocarpum (Miq.) Kloet – southern Appalachian Mountains of southeastern United States (from West Virginia to northeastern Georgia)[7]
- Vaccinium erythrocarpum subsp. japonicum – China, Japan, Korea[6][8]
References
- illustration from An illustrated flora of the northern United States, Canada and the British Possessions. Vol. 2: 705. Authors: Britton, N.L., & A. Brown.
- Tropicos, Vaccinium erythrocarpum subsp. japonicum (Miq.) Kloet
- Kloet, Sake Pieter Vander. 1991. Rhodora 93(875): 235
- English Names for Korean Native Plants (PDF). Pocheon: Korea National Arboretum. 2015. p. 667. ISBN 978-89-97450-98-5. Archived from the original (PDF) on 25 May 2017. Retrieved 4 January 2017 – via Korea Forest Service.
- Edward A. Cope (2001). Muenscher's Keys to Woody Plants: An Expanded Guide to Native and Cultivated Species. Cornell University Press. p. 262. ISBN 0-8014-8702-1.
- Flora of north America, Vaccinium erythrocarpum Michaux, 1803
- "Biota of North America Program, 2014 county distribution map". BONAP.net. Retrieved 13 June 2017.
- Flora of China, Vaccinium japonicum Miquel, 1863. 日本扁枝越桔 ri ben bian zhi yue ju
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