Showing Food Deerberry
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| Name | Deerberry | ||||||||||||
| Scientific Name | Vaccinium stamineum | ||||||||||||
| Description | Vaccinium stamineum, commonly known as deerberry, squaw huckleberry or gooseberry, is a flowering shrub in the heath family. The plant is native to eastern North America from Ontario in the north, south to Florida and west to Texas. Its white, bell-shaped flowers consisting of 5 spreading petals emerge from April through June, and on rare occasions from October through November. The fruit is an edible pubescent berry. The species is highly variable and a number of varieties have been named. It is typically found in rocky or sandy soil in xeric woodlands. | ||||||||||||
| Primary ID | FOOD00218 | ||||||||||||
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| Group | Fruits | ||||||||||||
| Sub-Group | Berries | ||||||||||||
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| Superkingdom | Eukaryota | ||||||||||||
| Kingdom | Viridiplantae | ||||||||||||
| Phylum | Streptophyta | ||||||||||||
| Class | Magnoliopsida | ||||||||||||
| Order | Ericales | ||||||||||||
| Family | Ericaceae | ||||||||||||
| Genus | Vaccinium | ||||||||||||
| Species | stamineum | ||||||||||||
| Variety | Not Available | ||||||||||||
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| ITIS ID | 23615 | ||||||||||||
| Wikipedia ID | Vaccinium stamineum | ||||||||||||
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