Monographs Details:
Authority:
Gleason, Henry A. & Cronquist, Arthur J. 1991. Manual of vascular plants of northeastern United States and adjacent Canada. lxxv + 910 pp.
Gleason, Henry A. & Cronquist, Arthur J. 1991. Manual of vascular plants of northeastern United States and adjacent Canada. lxxv + 910 pp.
Family:
Ericaceae
Ericaceae
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.
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
dwarf huckleberry