Shiny Blueberry

The range includes all of peninsular Florida and the southern parts of Georgia, and Alabama.



Best used as a wildflower as it has a relatively short lifespan.

Not salt tolerant of inundation by salty or brackish water.



Some tolerance to salty wind but not direct salt spray.

Birds and other wildlife consume the fruit.

Scrub, scrubby flatwoods, flatwoods, high pine, cutthroat seep.

• Fall color, Showy flowers, Interesting foliage
• Attracts pollinators.  Documented bee species include Augochlorella aurata, A. gratiosa, Augochloropsis anonyma, A. sumptuosa and Coelioxys say (Deyrup et al. 2002).