Flora of the Southeastern United States

Gaylussacia nana (A. Gray) Small. Common name: Dwarf Dangleberry. Phenology: Mar-May; Jun-Aug. Habitat: Xeric longleaf pine sandhills, pine flatwoods, pocosin ecotones, pine savannas. Distribution: Se. North Carolina (New Hanover County) (Sorrie & LeBlond 2008) and sc. South Carolina (Berkeley and Willamsburg counties) south to n. and c. Florida peninsula, Florida Panhandle, and west to e. Louisiana (Florida parishes). In North Carolina, this species is somewhat disjunct from ec. South Carolina in xeric sandhills of se. North Carolina (on the Carolina Beach peninsula and the 421 Sandhills nw. of Wilmington). In the central and southern Coastal Plain of South Carolina, it is probably more common than G. frondosa (just not frequently distinguished from it) (P. McMillan, pers.comm. 2020).

Origin/Endemic status: Endemic

Taxonomy Comments: G. nana has a diploid chromosome complement (n=12), compared to tetraploid for G. tomentosa (n=12) (Luteyn et al. 1996). See Sorrie (2017a) for additional details about identification of this species and G. tomentosa.

Synonymy ⓘ: = FNA8, K1, K4, NS, POWO, S13, Camp (1935), Duncan & Brittain (1966), Gajdeczka et al (2010), Luteyn et al (1996), Sorrie (2017a) in Weakley et al (2017); = Decachaena nana (A.Gray) Small — S; = Gaylussacia frondosa (L.) Torr. & A.Gray ex Torr. var. nana A. Gray — GW2, Camp (1935), Godfrey (1988); = n/a — RAB; < Gaylussacia frondosa (L.) Torr. & A.Gray ex Torr. — Fl5; < Gaylussacia frondosa (L.) Torr. & A.Gray ex Torr. var. tomentosa A. Gray — WH3. Basionym: Gaylussacia frondosa (L.) Torr. & A.Gray ex Torr. var. nana A. Gray 1886

Links to other floras: = Gaylussacia nana - FNA8

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Wetland Indicator Status:

• Atlantic and Gulf Coastal Plain: UPL

Heliophily ⓘ: 8