Vaccinium arboreum Marshall

• Region

  North America

• Country

  United States of America

• State/Province

  Alabama

• County/Municipio

  Baldwin Co.

• Locality

  At the SW corner of the intersection of O'Sullivan Lane & Rt. 90 at the entrance of a residential subdivision called Donovan Landing & around 0.1 mi SW of the Styx River. Seminole

• Elevation

  Alt. 9 m. (30 ft.)

• Coordinates

  30.5171, -87.4648

• Location Notes

  [US & Canada]

• Distribution

  Map all specimens of this taxon

Harvard University, Gray Herbarium (GH)
PLANTS OF ALABAMA
Vaccinium arboreum Marsh.
ERICACEAE
Shrubby tree 20ft tall, trunk diameter 5in, rare, flowers
fragrant & in great abundance, bark in long, shaggy strips to
lin wide, reminiscent of a miniature Carya ovata. Growing at
the edge of a forest in sandy loam (Bowie, Lakeland, and
Cuthbert soils, 12-25% slopes: fine-loamy, siliceous,
semiactive, thermic Plinthic Paleudults; thermic, coated Typic
Quartzipsamments; fine, mixed, semiactive, thermic Typic
Hapludults). Growing with Acer rubrum, Chamaecyparis
thyoides, Cyrilla racemiflora, Ilex cassine or /. coriacea, /.
glabra, I. vomitoria, Lonicera japónica, Lygodium japonicum,
Magnolia grandiflora, M. virginiana, Myrica cerífera, Pinus
elliottii, P. palustris, Pteridium aquilinum, Quercus nigra,
Rubus argutus, Serenoa repens, Toxicodendron radicans, T.
vemix, Vaccinium corymbosum, V. elliottii & Vitis
rotundifolia. At the SW comer of the intersection of
O’Sullivan Lane & Rt. 90 at the entrance of a residential
subdivision called Donovan Landing & around 0,1 mi SW of
the Styx River. Seminole, Baldwin Co. Elev. about 30ft. 30°
31' 01.6"N, 87° 27 53.4"W. UTM 16 455403E, 3376180N
(NAD83/WGS84).
Coll. Doug Goldman #3725
12 April 2006
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