| Family | Scientific Name | Common Name | Habitat | Distribution | Image |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Ericaceae | Vaccinium altomontanum | Blue Ridge Blueberry | Grassy balds, heath balds, high elevation forests and woodlands. | Higher mountains of the Southern Blue Ridge, from sw. VA to n. GA. |  |
| Ericaceae | Vaccinium angustifolium | Northern Lowbush Blueberry, Sugarberry, Low Sweet Blueberry | Acidic forests and woodlands, cliffs and talus (especially sandstone and quartzite), usually at high elevations. | NL (Labrador) and NL (Newfoundland) west to MB, south to NJ, PA, sw. VA, IL, and MN. Recently reported for the Great Smoky Mountains National Park (J. Rock, pers. comm. 2009) and from Cheoah Bald, Graham County (E. Schwartzman, pers. comm. 2010 and NCU specimen). |  |
| Ericaceae | Vaccinium arboreum | Farkleberry, Sparkleberry | Rocky or sandy woodlands, bluffs, and cliffs, usually xeric and often fire-maintained, and unlike most other Vaccinium, often on mafic, ultramafic, or calcareous rocks. | This species is widely distributed in se. North America, from TX and FL north to MO, IN, KY, and VA. |  |
| Ericaceae | Vaccinium ashei | Rabbit-eye Blueberry | Wet creek-sides and river margins to mesic pine-hardwood forests, mature pine forests, and dry pine-oak woodlands: margin of the Okefenokee Swamp, bottomland woods by creek, sandy seepage along river, edge of hammock above creek, moist woods on slope above creek, moist Magnolia-spruce pine woods, Magnolia-pine creek bottomland, ecotone of stream head, wooded strip around pond, roadcut bank near creek, roadsides, mesic to moist longleaf pine slopes, cut-over longleaf pine, flat open pineland, open pine-live oak-laurel oak woods, well-drained mixed woods, oak woods on sandy ridge, and very sandy pine-live oak-myrtle oak woods. | E. GA and nc. FL west to e. LA. | |
| Ericaceae | Vaccinium caesariense | New Jersey Highbush Blueberry | Swamps, bogs, moist ground. | S. ME south to n. FL. |  |
| Ericaceae | Vaccinium corymbosum | Smooth Highbush Blueberry | Bogs, wet swamp forests, moist high elevation bogs, balds, and forests. | NS west to MI, south to WV, OH, and IN, south in the Appalachians (and rarely on Piedmont monadnocks) to w. NC, nw. SC, n. GA, and e. TN. |  |
| Ericaceae | Vaccinium crassifolium | Creeping Blueberry | Pine savannas, pine flatwoods, pocosin-sandhill ecotones, upland sandhills over clay pans. | This species is nearly endemic to the Carolinas, barely extending into immediately adjacent VA and GA. |  |
| Ericaceae | Vaccinium darrowii | Darrow's Blueberry | Pine flatwoods. | S. GA south to s. peninsular FL and west to e. LA. |  |
| Ericaceae | Vaccinium elliottii | Mayberry | Bottomlands, slopes, sandy river terraces, natural levees. | Primarily a Coastal Plain species, V. elliottii ranges from se. VA south to n. FL, west to se. TX and AR; disjunct in Coffee County, TN (Chester, Wofford, & Kral 1997). |  |
| Ericaceae | Vaccinium erythrocarpum | Bearberry, Highbush Cranberry, Mountain Cranberry | Rocky ridges, shrub or grassy balds, bogs, spruce-fir forests, usually at high elevations. | A Southern and Central Appalachian endemic, V. erythrocarpum ranges from WV through VA to w. NC, e. and ec. TN, and ne. GA. |  |
| Ericaceae | Vaccinium formosum | Southern Highbush Blueberry, Swamp Highbush Blueberry | Bogs, swamps (especially blackwater, or at least where away from strong alluvial influence), seepages, depression ponds (dolines), other moist ground. | NJ south to n. FL and s. AL (and apparently to e. LA), primarily on the Coastal Plain; rarely occurring into the lower piedmont (in NC, as far west as Chatham and Orange counties, for instance). |  |
| Ericaceae | Vaccinium fuscatum | Hairy Highbush Blueberry, Black Highbush Blueberry | Bogs, pocosins, swamps, also in uplands. | ME and NB to s. MI, south to sc. peninsular FL and e. TX. |  |
| Ericaceae | Vaccinium hirsutum | Woollyberry, Hairy Blueberry, Low-lowbush Blueberry | Mountain slopes and ridges, primarily in pine-oak and oak forests. | V. hirsutum is a narrow Southern Appalachian endemic, occurring only in a few counties of sw. NC, se. TN, n. GA, and (allegedly) SC. |  |
| Ericaceae | Vaccinium macrocarpon | Cranberry, Large Cranberry | Bogs (southwards mainly at medium to high elevations), low pocosins with deep peat, interdunal swales. | Unlike the circumboreal V. oxycoccus Linnaeus, V. macrocarpon is limited to North America. It ranges as a native plant from NL (Newfoundland) west and south to s. ON, MN, ne. IL, n. IN, n. and c. OH, PA, and NJ, extending south along the Appalachians as a disjunct rarity through WV, w. VA, and ne. and se. TN to w. NC, and south along the outer Coastal Plain as a disjunct rarity in e. MD, se. VA, and ne. and se. NC. The occurrence in the inner Coastal Plain (fall-line sandhills) along the Little River in Cumberland County, NC is questionably native. |  |
| Ericaceae | Vaccinium myrsinites | Southern Evergreen Blueberry | Pine flatwoods. | Ne. SC (Horry County) south to s. peninsular FL, west to s. MS. |  |
| Ericaceae | Vaccinium myrtilloides | Velvetleaf Blueberry, Sourtop, Canada Blueberry | Acidic, high elevation slopes and cliffs. | NL (Labrador) west to BC, south to PA, VA, w. NC, WV, IN, and MN. Reported for the NC side of Great Smoky Mountains National Park (Haywood County) (K. Langdon, pers. comm. 2009). The possible occurrence of this species on Grandfather Mountain is based on somewhat ambiguous specimens and needs additional confirmation. |  |
| Ericaceae | Vaccinium oxycoccos | Small Cranberry | Bogs. | Circumboreal, south in North America to NJ, PA, WV (Grant, Mineral, Pendleton, Pocahontas, Preston, Randolph, and Tucker counties), IN, and MN. Fernald (1950) reported V. oxycoccos var. ovalifolium Michaux as occurring south to "mts. of N.C." and V. oxycoccos var .oxycoccos as south to "upland of Va. and W.Va.". Scoggan (1979) and Kartesz (1999) repeated the report of Vaccinium oxycoccos as reaching NC; Scoggan’s report is of Oxycoccus ovalifolius (Michaux) Porsild. Most likely, ambiguous collections of V. macrocarpon are the basis for these reports. |  |
| Ericaceae | Vaccinium pallidum | Hillside Blueberry, Dryland Blueberry | Forested slopes, usually rather xeric. | Widespread in e. United States, V. pallidum is centered in the Appalachians and Ozarks. |  |
| Ericaceae | Vaccinium sempervirens | Rayner's Blueberry | Seepage bogs in the fall-line Sandhills, longleaf pine woodlands over sandstone and gravel outcrops. | Endemic to Lexington County, SC, known from only a few sites |  |
| Ericaceae | Vaccinium simulatum | Mountain Highbush Blueberry | Forested slopes (northern hardwoods, spruce-fir forests), ridges, and shrub balds, at moderate and high elevations. | A Southern and Central Appalachian endemic, V. simulatum ranges from e. KY and sw. VA south through w. NC and e. TN to n. GA and n. AL. |  |
| Ericaceae | Vaccinium stamineum var. 1 | Dwarf Deerberry | Pinelands. | Se. NC south to GA. | |
| Ericaceae | Vaccinium stamineum var. 2 | Appalachian Deerberry | Xeric to submesic woodlands and forests, including pine-oak/heath and shrub balds. | PA south to GA, in the Appalachians and adjacent provinces. |  |
| Ericaceae | Vaccinium stamineum var. caesium | Florida Deerberry, Whiteleaf Deerberry | Xeric woodlands. | Se. NC south to c. peninsular FL, and west to s. AL. |  |
| Ericaceae | Vaccinium stamineum var. glandulosum | Panhandle Deerberry | Pine flatwoods. | Supposedly endemic to the FL Panhandle, but probably also in s. GA. |  |
| Ericaceae | Vaccinium stamineum var. sericeum | Southern Deerberry | Xeric woodlands. | S. SC, w. NC, TN, and AR south to Panhandle FL and TX; disjunct in Mexico (GTO, SLP, and allegedly ROO) (Villaseñor 2016). |  |
| Ericaceae | Vaccinium stamineum var. stamineum | Common Deerberry | Xeric to submesic woodlands, forests, and rock outcrops (unlike most Vaccinium, often on mafic, ultramafic, or calcareous rocks). | MA, NY, s. ON, and MO south to Panhandle FL and TX. |  |
| Ericaceae | Vaccinium tenellum | Southern Dwarf Blueberry, Small Cluster Blueberry | Longleaf pine sandhills, pine flatwoods, Piedmont hardpan woodlands, other xeric woodlands. | Though abundant in the Carolinas, V. tenellum is rather restricted, occurring as a common species from se. VA to c. GA, with a range extension (where it is scattered and rare) south and west to n. FL, s. AL, and se. MS. Primarily Coastal Plain in distribution, yet locally common in appropriate habitat in the eastern (lower) Piedmont. |  |
| Ericaceae | Vaccinium virgatum | Swamp Blueberry, Rabbiteye Blueberry | Pocosins and Chamaecyparis swamps, also in various drier habitats, including turkey oak sandhills. | A Southeastern Coastal Plain species, V. virgatum occurs from se. NC south to FL and west to e. TX. |  |
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