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|accepted_name=Gaylussacia frondosa
|accepted_authority=(Linnaeus) Torrey & A. Gray in J. Torrey
|publications={{Treatment/Publication
|title=in J. Torrey, Fl. New York
|place=1: 449. 1843 ,
}}
|common_names=Dangleberry
|basionyms={{Treatment/ID/Basionym
|name=Vaccinium frondosum
|authority=Linnaeus
|rank=species
|publication_title=Sp. Pl.
|publication_place=1: 351. 1753
}}
|synonyms={{Treatment/ID/Synonym
|name=Decachaena frondosa
|authority=(Linnaeus) Small
|rank=species
}}
|hierarchy=Ericaceae;Ericaceae subfam. Vaccinioideae;Gaylussacia;Gaylussacia frondosa
|hierarchy_nav=<div class="higher-taxa"><div class="higher-taxon"><small>family</small>[[Ericaceae]]</div><div class="higher-taxon"><small>subfamily</small>[[Ericaceae subfam. Vaccinioideae]]</div><div class="higher-taxon"><small>genus</small>[[Gaylussacia]]</div><div class="higher-taxon"><small>species</small>[[Gaylussacia frondosa]]</div></div>
|volume=Volume 8
|mention_page=page 531, 535
|treatment_page=page 534
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--><span class="statement" id="st-undefined" data-properties=""><b>Plants </b>7.5–20 dm, forming small to extensive colonies; branches spreading; twigs of current season pale green, glabrous or glabrate. <b>Leaves</b>: petiole 2–3 mm; blade greenish white, glaucescent abaxially, green to yellowish green, dull green adaxially, ovate to oblong, 2.5–5(–6) × 2–3 cm, subcoriaceous, base cuneate, margins entire, apex rounded to obtuse, surfaces short-hairy (hairs white) or glabrous, sessile-glandular abaxially. <b>Inflorescences</b> drooping, 2–4-flowered, sometimes flowers solitary, bracteate, 1–4.5 cm, glabrous or pilose; bracts early-deciduous, leaflike or not, 5–6 mm, shorter than pedicels, sessile-glandular, sparsely hairy. <b>Pedicels</b> 8–15(–20) mm, glabrous, sessile-glandular; bracteoles 1–2, 1–2.5 mm, (sessile-glandular). <b>Flowers</b>: sepals 5, 1–1.2 mm, glabrous, sessile-glandular; petals 5, corolla greenish white, campanulate-conic, 3–5 mm, lobes deltate, 1–1.4 mm; filaments 0.5–1 mm, pilose; anthers included (tips barely exserted), 2.5 mm, thecae not divergent distally; ovary glabrous. <b>Drupes</b> juicy, sweet, blue (sometimes black, rarely white), glaucescent, 5–8 mm diam., glabrous. <b>Seeds</b> 1.5 mm.</span><!--

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|phenology=Flowering late spring.
|habitat=Upland sites in deciduous oak-hickory woods and pine hardwoods, roadsides, pastures, and utility rights-of-way, moist to wet acidic shrub swamps and pocosins, streamhead ecotones, moist to wet pine savannas and flatwoods
|elevation=0-300 m
|distribution=Conn.;Del.;Ga.;Md.;Mass.;N.H.;N.J.;N.Y.;N.C.;Pa.;R.I.;S.C.;Va.
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name=Gaylussacia frondosa
|authority=(Linnaeus) Torrey & A. Gray in J. Torrey
|rank=species
|parent rank=genus
|synonyms=Decachaena frondosa
|basionyms=Vaccinium frondosum
|family=Ericaceae
|phenology=Flowering late spring.
|habitat=Upland sites in deciduous oak-hickory woods and pine hardwoods, roadsides, pastures, and utility rights-of-way, moist to wet acidic shrub swamps and pocosins, streamhead ecotones, moist to wet pine savannas and flatwoods
|elevation=0-300 m
|distribution=Conn.;Del.;Ga.;Md.;Mass.;N.H.;N.J.;N.Y.;N.C.;Pa.;R.I.;S.C.;Va.
|reference=None
|publication title=in J. Torrey, Fl. New York
|publication year=
|special status=
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|subfamily=Ericaceae subfam. Vaccinioideae
|genus=Gaylussacia
|species=Gaylussacia frondosa
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