Details for: PI 695363, Vaccinium virgatum Aiton, V. virgatum Millers Creek, Wilkes County


Summary Data
Taxonomy:
Vaccinium virgatum Aiton
Top Name:
V. virgatum Millers Creek, Wilkes County
Origin:
Collected – North Carolina, United States
Received by NPGS:
01 Dec 2020
Improvement Status:
Wild material
Reproductive Uniformity:

Population
Form Received:
Plant
Life Form:
Perennial
Life Cycle:
Perennial
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Core Passport Data
Taxonomy:
Vaccinium virgatum Aiton
Top Name:
V. virgatum Millers Creek, Wilkes County
Origin:
Collected – North Carolina, United States
Received by NPGS:
01 Dec 2020
Improvement Status:
Wild material
Reproductive Uniformity:

Population
Form Received:
Plant
Life Form:
Perennial
Life Cycle:
Perennial
Source History
Collected
01 May 2019.
North Carolina, United States
Locality: near Millers Creek North Carolina
Coordinates: 35.4908, -81.2689 (Map it)
Elevation: 1300m.
Habitat: Wild Habitat
Number of plants sampled: 1
Comment: Collected north of Millers Creek North Carolina in Wilkes County in the lower foothills
Collector(s):
Accession Names and Identifiers
V. virgatum Millers Creek, Wilkes County
Type: Site identifier
Group: SPECIES
accession preserved for genes
Draper, Arlen D.

CVAC 2386
Type: Site identifier
Group: LOCAL
Corvallis local number

Narrative
Collected by Arlen Draper in North Carolina. Suspects this plant to be hexaploid. The flowers are a rabbiteye type. Dr. Draper thinks it could be introgressed with Vaccinium corymbosum f. constablaei. 15 April 2021. Molecular markers will determine if this is a hybrid.
Vaccinium virgatum Aiton
Genus:
Vaccinium
Section:
Cyanococcus
Family:
Ericaceae
Subfamily:
Vaccinioideae
Tribe:
Vaccinieae
Nomen number:

41068
Place of publication:

Hort. kew. 2:12. 1789
Verified:
06/10/1992 by ARS Systematic Botanists.
Other conspecific taxa
Autonyms (not in current use), synonyms and invalid designations
Heterotypic Synonym(s)
Vaccinium amoenum Aiton

Common names
LanguageNameAlternate namenoteseqCitation
Englishrabbit-eye blueberry  1Wiersema, J. H. & B. León. 1999. World economic plants: a standard reference CRC Press, Boca Raton, FL.
Englishsouthern black blueberry  1Huxley, A., ed. 1992. The new Royal Horticultural Society dictionary of gardening
Englishswamp blueberry  1Weakley, A. S. 2011. Flora of the southern and middle Atlantic states.
Annotations
  • Taxonomic Re-Identification: 16 Apr 2021, from Vaccinium corymbosum L. to Vaccinium virgatum Aiton
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Date released:
2019
Description:
collected from the wild