Taxon: Vaccinium erythrocarpum Michx.

See also subordinate taxa:

• Vaccinium erythrocarpum subsp. erythrocarpum (no accessions)
• Vaccinium erythrocarpum subsp. japonicum (5 accessions)

Common names:

• bearberry   (Source: Castanea 52:249.1987) – English
  
• mountain cranberry   (Source: Castanea 61:138.1996) – English
  

Economic importance:

• View ethnobotanical data from Moerman's Native American Ethnobotany Database

Distributional range:

• ASIA-TEMPERATE
  China: China - Anhui [s.e.], Fujian, Gansu, Guangdong, Guangxi, Guizhou, Hubei, Hunan, Jiangxi, Sichuan, Yunnan, Zhejiang
  Eastern Asia: Japan - Hokkaido, Honshu, Kyushu, Shikoku; Korea, South - Cheju; Taiwan
• NORTHERN AMERICA (Check conservation status in U.S. & Canada in NatureServe Explorer database)
  Northeastern U.S.A.: United States - West Virginia
  Southeastern U.S.A.: United States - Georgia [n.e.], North Carolina [w.], Tennessee, Virginia [w.]

References:

• Clark, R. C. 1971. The woody plants of Alabama. Ann. Missouri Bot. Gard. 58:225.
• Duncan, W. H. & J. T. Kartesz. 1981. Vascular flora of Georgia: an annotated checklist. (L Georgia)
• FNA Editorial Committee. 1993–. Flora of North America. (F NAmer)
• Gleason, H. A. & A. Cronquist. 1963. Manual of vascular plants of northeastern United States and adjacent Canada. (Glea Cron)
• Iwatsuki, K. et al. 1993–. Flora of Japan. (F Japan) [treats subsp. japonicum as V. japonicum Miq.].
• Radford, A. E. et al. 1964. Manual of the vascular flora of the Carolinas. (F Carolin)
• Uttal, L. J. 1986. Updating the genus Vaccinium L. (Ericaceae) in West Virginia. Castanea 51:200.
• Uttal, L. J. 1987. The genus Vaccinium L. (Ericaceae) in Virginia. Castanea 52:249.
• Vander Kloet, S. P. & B. A. Bohm. 1991. Taxonomy of Vaccinium section Oxycoccoides (Ericaceae). Rhodora 93:234.
• Vander Kloet, S. P. in J. L. Luteyn et al. 1996. Ericaceae of the southeastern United States. Castanea 61:138.
• Vander Kloet, S. P. 1988. The genus Vaccinium in North America. (Vaccinium NAmer)
• Wu Zheng-yi & P. H. Raven et al., eds. 1994–. Flora of China (English edition). (F ChinaEng) [treats subsp. japonicum as V. japonicum Miq.].

More:

Search AGRICOLA article citation database for citations referencing Vaccinium erythrocarpum.

Search NCBI's Entrez search engine for PubMed citations referencing Vaccinium erythrocarpum. Note: Defaults to a search by genus or species epithet if species binomial not found.

Synonyms:

• Vaccinium japonicum Miq. [≡ Vaccinium erythrocarpum subsp. japonicum]
  (previously associated with 6 accessions)

Check other databases for Vaccinium erythrocarpum Michx.:

• Flora of North America: Collaborative Floristic Effort of North American Botanists
• Flora of China: Online version from Harvard University
• PLANTS: USDA-NRCS Database of Plants of the United States and its Territories
• TROPICOS: Nomenclatural and Specimen Database of the Missouri Botanical Garden
• ePIC: Electronic Plant Information Centre of Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew
• AGRICOLA: Article Citation Database or NAL Catalog of USDA's National Agricultural Library
• Entrez: NCBI's search engine for PubMed citations, GenBank sequences, etc.
  Note: Defaults to a search by genus or species epithet if species binomial not found.

Check other databases for images:

• PlantSystematics.org
• Images Note: Be advised that their identity may be inaccurate. Proper identification of a plant may require specialized taxonomic knowledge or comparison with properly documented herbarium material.

Abbreviations & symbols in GRIN Taxonomy

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