Dig deeper at SERNEC, a consortium of southeastern herbaria.

This a fairly distinctive, densely growing blueberry of high elevation exposed rocky places. Read more at Vascular Plants of North Carolina.

V. altomontanum differs from V. pallidum in forming tighter (often circular) clones, with taller plants (to 1m tall), the leaves thick in texture, often revolute, strictly glaucous and glabrous, and with excellent berries, per Weakley's Flora (2022)

INCLUDED WITHIN PLANTS NATIONAL DATABASE:
Vaccinium pallidum   FAMILY Ericaceae

INCLUDED WITHIN Flora of North America

Vaccinium pallidum

INCLUDED WITHIN VASCULAR FLORA OF THE CAROLINAS (Radford, Ahles, & Bell, 1968) 145-19-008?:

Vaccinium corymbosum   FAMILY Ericaceae

SYNONYMOUS WITH (ORTHOGRAPHIC VARIANT) Britton & Brown Illus Flora of Northeast US & adjacent Canada (Gleason, 1952)

Vaccinium alto-montanum

INCLUDING, AS TO TYPE Manual of the Southeastern Flora (Small, 1933, 1938)

Cyanococcus liparis

INCLUDING Manual of the Southeastern Flora (Small, 1933, 1938)

Cyanococcus subcordatus

COMMON NAME:
Blue Ridge Blueberry

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

INCLUDED WITHIN PLANTS NATIONAL DATABASE:
Vaccinium pallidum   FAMILY Ericaceae

INCLUDED WITHIN Flora of North America
Vaccinium pallidum

INCLUDED WITHIN VASCULAR FLORA OF THE CAROLINAS (Radford, Ahles, & Bell, 1968) 145-19-008?:
Vaccinium corymbosum   FAMILY Ericaceae

SYNONYMOUS WITH (ORTHOGRAPHIC VARIANT) Britton & Brown Illus Flora of Northeast US & adjacent Canada (Gleason, 1952)
Vaccinium alto-montanum

INCLUDING, AS TO TYPE Manual of the Southeastern Flora (Small, 1933, 1938)
Cyanococcus liparis

INCLUDING Manual of the Southeastern Flora (Small, 1933, 1938)
Cyanococcus subcordatus