🌿 Family

Ericaceae — Heath Family

520 species · Plants

Plantae › Tracheophyta › Magnoliopsida › Ericales › Ericaceae

Styphelia neoanglica (F.Muell. ex Benth.) F.Muell.

Styphelia neoanglica is an erect New South Wales and Queensland shrub that produces white bearded-lobe flowers and reddish-brown drupes.

Styphelia nesophila (DC.) Sleumer

Styphelia nesophila is a low-growing prickly shrub found in parts of Australia and New Zealand, with fleshy fruit dispersed by frugivores.

Styphelia setigera (R.Br.) Spreng.

Styphelia setigera is an erect to spreading Australian shrub that grows in shrubby woodland on sandstone south of Sydney.

Styphelia sieberi (DC.) Hislop, Crayn & Puente-Lel.

Styphelia sieberi (prickly beard-heath) is an erect shrub found in forests and shrublands of eastern Australia.

Styphelia tenuiflora Benth.

Styphelia tenuiflora is an erect glabrous shrub native to multiple bioregions of south-western Western Australia.

Styphelia triflora Andrews

Styphelia triflora is a pink-flowered shrub widespread in New South Wales woodlands and forests.

Styphelia tubiflora Sm.

Styphelia tubiflora is a shrub that bears usually red flowers from April to August and grows in southeastern Australia.

Trochocarpa laurina (Rudge) R.Br.

Trochocarpa laurina is an Australian shrub or tree, used traditionally by Aboriginal people to make waddies, hosting mistletoe and epiphytes.

Vaccinium angustifolium Aiton

Vaccinium angustifolium (lowbush blueberry) is a fire-tolerant native North American deciduous shrub cultivated for its sweet edible berries.

Vaccinium arboreum Marshall

Vaccinium arboreum, or sparkleberry, is a shrub or small tree native to the United States with studied uses as a blueberry rootstock.

Vaccinium cespitosum Michx.

Vaccinium cespitosum (dwarf bilberry) is a low-growing, mat-forming shrub with edible blue fruits, native to North and Central America.

Vaccinium corymbosum L.

Vaccinium corymbosum, the northern highbush blueberry, is a commercially and ecologically important deciduous shrub native to eastern North America.

Vaccinium darrowii Camp

Vaccinium darrowii is an evergreen native shrub grown for edible berries and ornamental landscaping.

Vaccinium erythrocarpum Michx.

Vaccinium erythrocarpum Michx. is an Appalachian high elevation shrub with edible cranberry-like scarlet berries, pollinated mainly by large bees.

Vaccinium floribundum Kunth

Vaccinium floribundum, the Andean blueberry, is an Andean shrub that bears edible berries used in cooking and Day of the Dead celebrations.

Vaccinium macrocarpon Aiton

Vaccinium macrocarpon (common cranberry) is an edible commercially grown berry shrub native to North America.

Vaccinium membranaceum Douglas ex Hook.

Vaccinium membranaceum is a North American wild huckleberry with edible commercially harvested berries.

Vaccinium microcarpum (Turcz. ex Rupr.) Schmalh. ex Busch

Vaccinium microcarpum is a flowering Ericaceae species native from subarctic to temperate Northern Hemisphere.

Vaccinium myrsinites Lam.

Vaccinium myrsinites is a rhizomatous evergreen shrub native to the southeastern U.S. that is fire-adapted and was used by the Seminole.

Vaccinium myrtilloides Michx.

Vaccinium myrtilloides is a North American blueberry shrub with edible sweet berries, and has documented indigenous medicinal and craft uses.

Vaccinium myrtillus L.

Vaccinium myrtillus L. is a small deciduous Holarctic shrub that produces edible blue bilberries, and its leaves may be unsafe to eat.

Vaccinium ovalifolium Sm.

Vaccinium ovalifolium is a spreading Pacific-region shrub with edible berries used in food and dyes.

Vaccinium ovatum Pursh

Vaccinium ovatum, or evergreen huckleberry, is a slow-growing North American Pacific Coast shrub grown ornamentally.

Vaccinium oxycoccos L.

Vaccinium oxycoccos is a small prostrate evergreen cranberry shrub that grows in cool Northern Hemisphere wetlands, with edible berries.

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