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Ericaceae
Vaccinium

not marked as a favorite taxon Vaccinium corymbosum Linnaeus. Common name: Large-flowered Highbush Blueberry, Smooth Highbush Blueberry. Phenology: Late Feb-May; Jun-Aug. Habitat: Bogs, moist high elevation bogs, balds, and forests, swamps (especially blackwater, or at least where away from strong alluvial influence), seepages, depression ponds (dolines), other moist ground. Distribution: Nova Scotia west to Michigan, south to West Virginia, Ohio, and Indiana, south in the Appalachians (and rarely on Piedmont monadnocks) to n. Virginia and nc. North Carolina, and in the Coastal Plain and lowermost Piedmont to Georgia and Alabama, and Coastal Plain only to Panhandle and nc. Florida.

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Section: Cyanococcus.

Origin/Endemic status: Native

Taxonomy Comments: We here follow Fritsch, Crowl, & Manos (2025) in recognizing V. corymbosum in a narrower sense than the very broad treatment of Vander Kloet (and followed by others, but not as narrowly as some. We follow Fritsch, Crowl, & Manos (2025) in including Vaccinium formosum within the concept of V. corymbosum. See the end of the genus treatment for discussion of taxonomic controversy involving this species and its allies. V. corymbosum is tetraploid (Redpath et al. 2022).

Synonymy ⓘ: = Can, Il, NE, RAB, Tat, Tn, W, Camp (1945), Fritsch, Crowl, & Manos (2025), Redpath et al (2022); > Cyanococcus corymbosus (L.) Rydb. — S; > Cyanococcus cuthbertii Small — S; > Cyanococcus holophyllus Small — S; > Vaccinium australe Small — G, GW2, Camp (1945); > Vaccinium constablaei A. Gray — G, Camp (1945); < Vaccinium corymbosum L. — C, Fl5, FNA8, NY, Pa, WH3, Luteyn et al (1996), Vander Kloet (1988); > Vaccinium corymbosum L. — G, K1, K4, NS, POWO, S13, Va, Uttal (1987); > Vaccinium corymbosum L. var. albiflorum (Hook.) Fernald — F; > Vaccinium corymbosum L. var. corymbosum — F, Mi, WV; > Vaccinium corymbosum L. var. glabrum Gray — F, WV; > Vaccinium formosum H.C. Andrews — K1, K4, NS, POWO, S13, Va, Uttal (1987). Basionym: Vaccinium corymbosum L. 1753

Links to other floras: < Vaccinium corymbosum - FNA8

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Wetland Indicator Status:

  • Atlantic and Gulf Coastal Plain: FACW (taxonomic split from wetland indicator species)
  • Eastern Mountains and Piedmont: FACW (taxonomic split from wetland indicator species)
  • Great Plains: FACW (taxonomic split from wetland indicator species)
  • Midwest: FACW (taxonomic split from wetland indicator species)
  • Northcentral & Northeast: FACW (taxonomic split from wetland indicator species)

Heliophily ⓘ: 5

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