Gaylussacia dumosa (Andr.) Torr. & A.Gray

• 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 dumosa (Andrews) A.Gray

• Description

  Species Description - Colonial by long, woody rhizomes, sending up leafy branches 2–5 dm; lvs deciduous, oblanceolate to obovate, 2–4 cm, entire, inconspicuously stipitate-glandular; racemes rather dense; bracts oval or oblong, foliaceous, persistent, 5–12 mm; pedicels, hypanthium, and cal pubescent and copiously stipitate-glandular; sep glandular-ciliate; cor 5–9 mm; fr black, hairy, 5–8 mm. Usually in wet, sandy soil or in bogs, on or near the coastal plain; Nf. to Fla, and La. May, June. (Lasiococcus d.) Var. bigeloviana Fernald, from Nf. to Va., has the bracts conspicuously glandular and the fls 7–9 mm. Var. dumosa, from L.I. to La., has thinner bracts, often shining, sparsely glandular to glabrous on the surface, the fls 5–7 mm.

• Common Names

  dwarf huckleberry