Blackwater Preserve, 18 March 2010. Tiny honey colored resin dots are present on bud scales and exposed, developing leaves.
Gaylussacia frondosa (left), G. baccata (right). Blackwater Preserve. 16 April 2003
Fruits with ten seeds. The "seeds" are actually pyrenes. Blackwater Preserve 19 July 2005.
Gaylussacia baccata left, G. frondosa with larger, lighter leaves right.Both abundant in open sunny area with bare sand in stand of Quercus laevis. South Quay Sandhills State Natural Area, Suffolk, Virginia. 9 May 2013.
Blackwater Preserve 19 July 2005.
V. vacillans) fruits. Blackwater Preserve. 22 July 2003
Gaylussacia frondosa (left), G. baccata (right). Blackwater Preserve. 16 April 2003