NameThatPlant.net: Gaylussacia tomentosa

Spermatophytes (seed plants): Angiosperms (flowering plants): Eudicots: Core Eudicots: Asterids: Ericales

WEAKLEY'S FLORA OF THE SOUTHEASTERN US (4/24/22):
Gaylussacia tomentosa FAMILY Ericaceae Go to FSUS key

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Read more about Woolly Dangleberry at Vascular Plants of North Carolina.

SYNONYMOUS WITH PLANTS NATIONAL DATABASE:
Gaylussacia tomentosa FAMILY Ericaceae

SYNONYMOUS WITH VASCULAR FLORA OF THE CAROLINAS (Radford, Ahles, & Bell, 1968) 145-18-003b:

Gaylussacia frondosa var. tomentosa FAMILY Ericaceae

COMMON NAME:
Woolly Dangleberry, Hairy Dangleberry, Hairytwig Huckleberry

WEAKLEY'S FLORA OF THE SOUTHEASTERN US (4/24/22):
Gaylussacia tomentosa FAMILY Ericaceae

SYNONYMOUS WITH PLANTS NATIONAL DATABASE:
Gaylussacia tomentosa FAMILY Ericaceae

SYNONYMOUS WITH VASCULAR FLORA OF THE CAROLINAS (Radford, Ahles, & Bell, 1968) 145-18-003b:
Gaylussacia frondosa var. tomentosa FAMILY Ericaceae

2634

Shrub
Perennial

Habitat: pine flatwoods, longleaf pine sandhills, xeric coastal fringe sandhills, pocosin ecotones, pine savannas, per Weakley's Flora

Native to South Carolina & Georgia

Common in GA, rare in SC

CLICK HERE to see a map, notes, and images from Weakley's Flora of the Southeastern US.

LEAVES:
Deciduous
Simple
Alternate

FLOWER:
Spring
Greenish-white/Pinkish
Radially symmetrical
5-lobed calyx
5-lobed urceolate to urceolate-campanulate corolla
10 included stamens
Inferior ovary
Bisexual

Flowers in axillary racemes on 2nd-year wood

FRUIT:
Summer
Dark blue, sometimes black
Berry

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