Vaccinium erythrocarpum

Vaccinium erythrocarpum – also commonly known as mountain blueberry,[4] southern mountain cranberry, bearberry, arando, and dingleberry[5] – is a species of cranberry.

Vaccinium erythrocarpum
1913 illustration[1]
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Plantae
Clade: Tracheophytes
Clade: Angiosperms
Clade: Eudicots
Clade: Asterids
Order: Ericales
Family: Ericaceae
Genus: Vaccinium
Species:
V. erythrocarpum
Binomial name
Vaccinium erythrocarpum
Michx. 1803
Synonyms[2][3]
Synonymy
  • all are synonyms of subspecies japonicum
  • Vaccinium japonicum Miq.
  • Hugeria japonica (Miq.) Nakai
  • Oxycoccoides japonica (Miq.) Nakai
  • Oxycoccus japonicus (Miq.) Makino
  • Vaccinium erythrocarpum var. fauriei Sleumer
  • Vaccinium erythrocarpum var. ciliare Matsumura
  • Vaccinium erythrocarpum var. sinicum (Nakai) Rehder
  • Vaccinium erythrocarpum var. lasiostemon Hayata

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]

Subspecies[3][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
  1. illustration from An illustrated flora of the northern United States, Canada and the British Possessions. Vol. 2: 705. Authors: Britton, N.L., & A. Brown.
  2. Tropicos, Vaccinium erythrocarpum subsp. japonicum (Miq.) Kloet
  3. Kloet, Sake Pieter Vander. 1991. Rhodora 93(875): 235
  4. 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.
  5. 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.
  6. Flora of north America, Vaccinium erythrocarpum Michaux, 1803
  7. "Biota of North America Program, 2014 county distribution map". BONAP.net. Retrieved 13 June 2017.
  8. Flora of China, Vaccinium japonicum Miquel, 1863. 日本扁枝越桔 ri ben bian zhi yue ju


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