Gaylussacia

• Authority

  Gleason, Henry A. & Cronquist, Arthur J. 1991. Manual of vascular plants of northeastern United States and adjacent Canada. lxxv + 910 pp.

• Family

  Ericaceae

• Scientific Name

  Gaylussacia

• Description

  Genus Description - Fls 5-merous; hypanthium short, obconic; cal 5-lobed, persistent; cor tubular or conic, scarcely if at all constricted above, the short lobes erect or outcurved; stamens 10, included; anthers with 2 pollen-sacs, each sac prolonged into a terminal tubule; ovary inferior, 10-locellar, ripening into a fleshy drupe with 10 seed-like nutlets, edible but of poor quality; freely branched shrubs, often colonial, commonly conspicuously glandular, with small, alternate, deciduous or evergreen lvs and white or pinkish fls in lateral, bracteate racemes. 50, New World.

• Common Names

  huckleberry