Vaccinium erythrocarpumMichx.

southern mountain cranberry

WFO wfo-0001047091 Accepted WFO 2026-06 8 photographs CC BY / CC BY-SA

Plate 1 figs. a–h · 8 separate observations

Vaccinium erythrocarpum, photographed by Will Kuhn
fig. a Will Kuhn, CC BY 4.0 / 2021-10-11 / obs. 163702698
Vaccinium erythrocarpum, photographed by Will Kuhn
fig. b Will Kuhn, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 160391103
Vaccinium erythrocarpum, photographed by Siddarth Machado
fig. c Siddarth Machado, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 147268272
Vaccinium erythrocarpum, photographed by Tom Field
fig. d Tom Field, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 150579319
Vaccinium erythrocarpum, photographed by Tom Field
fig. e Tom Field, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 140258244
Vaccinium erythrocarpum, photographed by Will Kuhn
fig. f Will Kuhn, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 83682961
Vaccinium erythrocarpum, photographed by Will Kuhn
fig. g Will Kuhn, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 78985900
Vaccinium erythrocarpum, photographed by Judy Gallagher
fig. h Judy Gallagher, CC BY-SA 4.0 / obs. 41112511

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Native range 6 botanical countries

Regions where Vaccinium erythrocarpum is native: Georgia, Kentucky, North Carolina, Tennessee, Virginia, West Virginia GeorgiaKentuckyNorth CarolinaTennesseeVirginiaWest Virginia
Native distribution of Vaccinium erythrocarpum, after Kew’s World Checklist of Vascular Plants. Introduced, extinct and doubtful records are excluded, so this is where the plant is from, not everywhere it now grows.
RegionTDWG codeContinent
Georgia GEO NORTHERN AMERICA
Kentucky KTY
North Carolina NCA
Tennessee TEN
Virginia VRG
West Virginia WVA

Region boundaries approximated from Natural Earth (public domain) and mapped to TDWG World Geographical Scheme for Recording Plant Distributions (WGSRPD) level-3 botanical countries (Brummitt 2001). Indicative, not the official WGSRPD geometry.

Also published as 8 synonyms

A synonym is not an error. It is a record of botanists disagreeing, in print, about where this plant belongs. Each of these was somebody’s considered answer.

  • Hugeria erythrocarpa (Michx.) Small
  • Oxycoccoides erythrocarpus (Michx.) Nakai
  • Oxycoccus erectus Pursh
  • Oxycoccus erythrocarpus (Michx.) Pers.
  • Schollera erecta Steud.
  • Schollera erythrocarpa (Michx.) Steud.
  • Schollera erythrocarpa (Michx.) Britton
  • Vaccinium erythrocarpum f. erythrocarpum

Sourcesevery claim on this page

  1. World Flora Online Plant List. accepted name, authority, classification. CC0. Retrieved 2026-07-12.
  2. iNaturalist. photographs and flowering annotations, CC0 / CC BY / CC BY-SA only. per photograph. Retrieved 2026-06-27.
  3. Wikidata. common name (P1843), joined on the World Flora Online identifier (P7715). CC0. Retrieved 2026-07-13.
  4. Kew, World Checklist of Vascular Plants (WCVP v16). native distribution by TDWG level-3 botanical country, and life form. CC BY 3.0. Retrieved 2026-06-04.

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