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HEATH FAMILY
(ERICACEAE)
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Bird food
- Fetterbush berries: mockingbirds
- Huckleberries: bluebirds, bobwhites, cedar waxwings, grouse, jays, mourning doves, wild turkeys
- Sourwood fruit: songbirds, grouse, wild turkeys
- Vaccinium berries: bluebirds, catbirds, flickers, flycatchers, jays, kingbirds, orioles, sandhill cranes, sparrows, thrashers, thrushes, titmice, towhees, others
Butterfly larval food
Butterfly nectar food
- Fetterbush: several species
- Rhodendron: several species
- Tarflower: several species
- Vaccinium: several species
Wildlife food
- Fetterbush berries: small mammals
- Sourwood foliage: deer
- Sourwood fruits: small mammals
- Sourwood nectar: bees
- Vaccinium berries: many mammals, including bears
Wildlife shelter
- Fetterbush: nesting for bears
- Rhododendron: nesting sites for songbirds
- Vaccinium: good cover
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name |
area | flower
& fruit |
season |
other |
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Tarflower
Befaria racemosa | NC | white, pink | Sp | s |
Dwarf huckleberry
Gaylusscia dumosa | NCS | white-pink
black | Sp
SuF | s |
Fetterbush
Lyonia lucida | NCS | white-purple
brown | Sp
Su | s |
Azalea
Rhododendron spp. | NC | various | Sp | s |
Sourwood
Oxydendrum arboreum | N | white
yellow-tan | Su
F | t |
Sparkleberry
Vaccinium arboreum | NC | white
black | Sp
SuFW | t |
Darrow's blueberry
Vaccinium darrowii | NC | white
blue | SpW
Su | s  |
Highbush blueberry
Vaccinium fuscatum | NC | white, pink, red
black, blue | SpSu
Su | s |
Shiny blueberry
Vaccinium myrsinites | NCS | white, pink
black, bluish | SpW
Su | s |
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Florida Native Plants
