CPC National Collection Plant Profile
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CPC National Collection Plant Profile
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Vaccinium sempervirens
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Vaccinium sempervirens is Not Sponsored |
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custodian for this plant in the CPC National Collection of Endangered
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Rayner’s Blueberry is a small trailing or spreading heath found in Atlantic white cedar bogs and seepage slopes and endemic to Lexington County in the Sandhills of South Carolina. It produces few small white flowers in late March to early April and even fewer fruits. The leaves of Rayner’s blueberry superficially resemble those of the creeping blueberry (V. crassifolium), but can be distinguished by their larger size. Kirkman and Ballington (1990) reduced it to a subspecies V. crassifolium, but Weakley (2002) prefers to retain it as a species because of its distinct morphology. Rayner’s blueberry was first described in 1980 and is endangered in South Carolina.
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References |
Weakley, A.S. 2002. Flora of the Carolinas and Virginia, Working Draft. Unpublished--available on-line. |
Kartesz, J.T. 1999. A synonymized checklist of the vascular flora of the U.S., Canada, and Greenland. In: Kartesz, J.T.; Meacham, C.A., editors. Synthesis of the North American Flora, Version 1.0. North Carolina Botanical Garden. Chapel Hill, NC. |
Kirkman, W.B. 1989. Vaccinium sempervirens Raf. - a Lost Synonym for Vaccinium ovatum Pursh. Rhodora. 91, 868: 279-281. |
Kirkman, W.B.; Ballington, J.R. 1990. Creeping Blueberries (Ericaceae: Vaccinium sect. Herpothamnus) -- A New Look at V. crassifolium Including V. sempervirens. Systematic botany. 15, 4: 679. |
Kirkman, W.B.; Wentworth, T.R.; Ballington, J.R. 1989. The ecology and phytosociology of the creeping blueberries, Vaccinium section Herpothamnus. Bulletin of the Torrey Botanical Club. 116: 114-133. |
Rayner, D.A.; Henderson, J. 1980. Vaccinium sempervirens (ERICACEAE), a new species from Atlantic white-cedar bogs in the sandhills of South Carolina. Rhodora. 82: 503-507. |
Shumway, S.W.; Banks, C.R. 2001. Species Distributions in Interdunal Swale Communities: The Effects of Soil Waterlogging. American Midland Naturalist. 145, 1: 137-146. |
Gardner, R.K. 1996. Center for Plant Conservation 1996 Annual Report on Taxa in the National Collection. Institution: North Carolina Botanical Garden. St. Louis, MO: Center for Plant Conservation. |
| This profile was updated on 3/4/2010 |