Eastern Mojave Vegetation Coll. No. 3021, Vaccinium sp.  
 

 

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Photographed 15 December 2023.

Plants of the Douglas Mountain Study Area
Jefferson County Open Space, Colorado, USA
Ericaceae

Vaccinium L.  Blueberry.

Guy Gulch, Jefferson County, Colorado. Abandoned stream channel of the creek in Guy Gulch, southwest side of County Road 70, 1.13 km. northwest of Centennial Ranch house, 13.3 km. (geodesic) northwest of the GNIS location of Golden. 39.8009°N, 105.3646°W. WGS 1984 Elev. 2409 m. In a thicket under Betula occidentalis, Ribes cereum, and Rubus deliciosus. Compare to Coll. No. 3112 and 3139, Vaccinium sp. from Lake County.

Collected by permit: Jefferson County Open Space, 2023, issued: Apr 10, 2023, to: Tom Schweich.

Tom Schweich, with John Vickery 3021. 3-Jul-2023

Coll. No. 3021, 3 July 2023, characters observed: Perennial, low-growing; Twigs of current season, terete, reddish-brown, glabrous; Leaves, oblanceolate to oblong, 34 mm. × 14 mm. wide, smaller leaves broadest above middle, margins serrulate entire length.

Harrington (1964 2nd ed.): Vaccinium caespitosum. Weber & Wittmann (2012): V. myrtillus. Ackerfield (2022): V. membranaceum.

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