Vaccinium arboreum Marshall

• Region

  North America

• Country

  United States of America

• State/Province

  Florida

• County/Municipio

  Sarasota Co.

• Locality

  Jelks Preserve, ca. 1.7 kilometers (by air) south of US 75, 0.8 km (by air) east of North River Road and west of the Mayakka River

• Coordinates

  27.0931, -82.3347

• Location Notes

  [US & Canada]

• Distribution

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The New York Botanical Garden
Herbarium, Marie Selby Botanical Gardens
Plants of The United States of America
Ericaceae
Vaccinium arboreum Marshall
det. B. K. Holst (SEL), 2002
The United States of America. Florida, Sarasota County. Jelks
Preserve, ca. 1.7 kilometers (by air) south of US 75, 0.8 km (by
air) east of North River Road and west o^the Mayakka River.
27° 5.589' N: 82° 20.081' W (coordinates from hand-held GPS;
accurate to within a radius of about 50 m)
Upland pine flatwoods with scattered Pinus elliotti and
Quercus virginiana, shrub layer dominated by Serenoa repens
with Quercus spp. (see Atha et al. 2499,2500, 2504 for oak
specimens), Lyonia and Vaccinium spp (including V.
stamineum (Atha et al. 2502) and V. corymbosum (Atha et al.
2501). Area periodically burned.
Shrubs between 1 and 1.5 meters tall; flowers white.
Collected by: Daniel E. Atha & Bruce Holst and Ulyana
Munoz-Acuna 2501
06 April 2002
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