Gaylussacia
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Gaylussacia is a genus of about fifty species of flowering plants in the family Ericaceae, native to the Americas, where they occur in eastern North America and in South America in the Andes and the mountains of southeastern Brazil (the majority of the known species). Common English names include huckleberry (shared with plants in several other genera) and "dangleberry".
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Gaylussacia | |
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Gaylussacia pulchra[1] | |
Scientific classification | |
Kingdom: | Plantae |
Clade: | Tracheophytes |
Clade: | Angiosperms |
Clade: | Eudicots |
Clade: | Asterids |
Order: | Ericales |
Family: | Ericaceae |
Subfamily: | Vaccinioideae |
Tribe: | Vaccinieae |
Genus: | Gaylussacia Kunth |
Type species | |
Gaylussacia buxifolia Kunth |
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Gaylussacia plants are often a component of an oak-heath forest.[2][3] They are deciduous or evergreen shrubs growing to a height of 0.4ā1.8 metres (1 ft 4 in ā 5 ft 11 in).