Details for: PI 688404, Vaccinium simulatum Small, V. simulatum VA-2018-061 White Top


Summary Data
Taxonomy:
Vaccinium simulatum Small
Top Name:
V. simulatum VA-2018-061 White Top
Origin:
Collected – Virginia, United States
Received by NPGS:
31 Aug 2018
Improvement Status:
Wild material
Reproductive Uniformity:

Population
Form Received:
Seed
Life Form:
Perennial
Life Cycle:
Perennial
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Core Passport Data
Taxonomy:
Vaccinium simulatum Small
Top Name:
V. simulatum VA-2018-061 White Top
Origin:
Collected – Virginia, United States
Received by NPGS:
31 Aug 2018
Improvement Status:
Wild material
Reproductive Uniformity:

Population
Form Received:
Seed
Life Form:
Perennial
Life Cycle:
Perennial
Source History
Collected
29 August 2018.
Virginia, United States
Locality: Whitetop Mountain, Mud Creek Lane, Grayson Co. VA
Coordinates: 36.6383, -81.6055 (Map it)
Elevation: 1673m.
Georeference protocol: Lat/lon determined by GPS
Environment description: Top of Whitetop Mountain along Mud Creek Lane. Found on rocky, moist, dark soiled, weedy road cuts and in open meadow with Crataegus, fir, Sorbus, yellow birch, wild cherry, azalea, Rubus canadensis, rush, grass, Eupatorium, Prunella, Solidago, sneezeweed, Gentian, Erigeron, various herbs; one or two large clones of V. erythrocarpum found across Mud Creek Lane.
Comment: Upright, dense, multi-stemmed shrubs with fruit at various stages of ripening, glaucous blue to shiny black; leaf spot, powdery mildew. This side of the road was predominately V. simulatum, no other species found in area searched.
Collector(s):
Accession Names and Identifiers
V. simulatum VA-2018-061 White Top
Type: Site identifier
Group: SPECIES
accession preserved for genes
Hummer, Kim USDA, ARS

VA-2018-061
Type: Collector identifier
Group: OTHERNUM
other identifier

CVAC 2343
Type: Site identifier
Group: LOCAL
Corvallis local number

VA HUMMER 2018
Type: Exploration identifier
Group: OTHERNUM
other identifier

Narrative
Virginia 2018
Vaccinium simulatum Small
Genus:
Vaccinium
Section:
Cyanococcus
Family:
Ericaceae
Subfamily:
Vaccinioideae
Tribe:
Vaccinieae
Nomen number:

41058
Place of publication:

Fl. s.e. U.S. 896. 1903
Verified:
06/12/1992 by ARS Systematic Botanists.
Other conspecific taxa
Autonyms (not in current use), synonyms and invalid designations
Common names
LanguageNameAlternate namenoteseqCitation
Englishmountain highbush blueberry  1Weakley, A. S. 2011. Flora of the southern and middle Atlantic states.
Englishsouthern highlands highbush blueberry  1Ballington, J. R. 2009. The role of interspecific hybridization in blueberry improvement. Acta Hort. 810:49-60.
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Date released:
2018
Description:
collected from the wild