Southern Mountain Cranberry
Habit | shrub
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Lifespan: | ⌛ | perennial |
Read about Southern Mountain Cranberry in the Standard Cyclopedia of Horticulture
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Vaccinium erythrocarpum, Michx. (Oxycoccus erythrocarpus, Pers.). An erect, divergently branching shrub, 1-4 ft. high: lvs. 1 1/2 - 3 in. long, oblong-lanceolate to ovate, acuminate, finely bristly serrulate, thin, green both sides, paler beneath: pedicels solitary, axillary, shorter than the lvs., recurved, bractless: corolla flesh-color, 1/3 in. long, 4-cleft, the lobes narrow, acute, revolute: berries globose, 1/4 in. diam., bright red turning darker, acid, scarcely edible. Higher Alleghanies. Va. to Ga.
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