This is a list of genera in the plant family Ericaceae, which includes the heaths, heathers, epacrids, and blueberries. As currently circumscribed, the family contains about 4000 species into more than 120 genera classified into 9 subfamilies.
The list shown here follows the phylogenetic classification of Kron et al. (2002), with modifications as per Stevens et al. (2004), Quinn et al. (2005), Albrecht et al. (2010), Gillespie & Kron (2010), and Craven (2011).
Nonetheless, much of the taxonomy within the Vaccinioideae is in flux. Multiple studies of the Gaultherieae have now shown Pernettya, Diplycosia (already including Pernettyopsis), and Tepuia to be nested within Gaultheria, although publication formalizing the transfers are yet to be published. Similarly, most of Vaccinieae has not been investigated using molecular techniques, and many genera are likely paraphyletic or polyphyletic. Neotropical and Old World Vaccinioideae are particularly poorly known.
Relevant recent synonymy include Bruckenthalia with Erica, Leiophyllum and Loiseleuria with Kalmia, and Diplarche and Menziesia with Rhododendron.
| Genus | Year | Subfamily / Tribe | Type species |
| Distribution | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Enkianthus | 1791 | Enkianthoideae | Enkianthus quinqueflorus | Southeast Asia | ||
| Chimaphila | 1813 ("1814") | Chimaphila maculata | North and Central America, Eurasia | |||
| Moneses | 1821 | Moneses grandiflora | Circumboreal | |||
| Orthilia | 1840 | Orthilia parvifolia | Canada to Guatemala, Eurasia | |||
| Pyrola | 1753 | Pyrola rotundifolia | ca. 30 | North and Central America, Eurasia | ||
| Allotropa | 1858 ("1857") | Allotropa virgata | Pacific Northwest | |||
| Cheilotheca | 1876 | Cheilotheca khasiana | ||||
| Eremotropa | 1953 | Eremotropa sciaphila | south-central China | |||
| Hemitomes | 1858 ("1857") | Hemitomes congestum | West Coast | |||
| Monotropa | 1753 | Monotropa uniflora | America, Europe, Asia | |||
| Monotropastrum | 1936 | Monotropastrum macrocarpum | 2 or 3 | Himalaya to Sumatra and Japan | ||
| Monotropsis | 1817 | Monotropsis odorata | Southeastern United States | |||
| Pityopus | 1914 | Pityopus oregonus | West Coast of the United States | |||
| Pleuricospora | 1868 | Pleuricospora fimbriolata | California to British Columbia | |||
| Pterospora | 1919 | Pterospora andromedea | United States and Mexico | |||
| Sarcodes | 1851 | Sarcodes sanguinea | West Coast of United States and Mexico | |||
| Arbutus | 1753 | Arbutus unedo | West Coast of Canada to Central America, Mediterranean area | |||
| Arctostaphylos | 1763 | Arctostaphylos uva-ursi | North and Central America, Eurasia | |||
| Comarostaphylis | 1837 | Comarostaphylis arguta | California to Central America | |||
| Ornithostaphylos | 1914 | Ornithostaphylos oppositifolia | California, Mexico | |||
| Xylococcus | 1842 ("1843") | Xylococcus bicolor | California | |||
| Cassiope | 1834 | Cassiopeoideae | Cassiope tetragona | Circumboreal | ||
| Bryanthus | 1769 | Bryanthus musciformis (Poir.) Nakai | ||||
| Ledothamnus | 1863 | Ledothamnus guyanensis | ||||
| Ceratiola | 1803 | Ceratiola ericoides | United States | |||
| Corema | 1826 | Corema album | North America, Iberian Peninsula | |||
| Empetrum | 1753 | Empetrum nigrum | 3–18 | Circumboreal and southern South America | ||
| Calluna | 1802 | Calluna vulgaris | European | |||
| Daboecia | 1834 | Daboecia polifolia | Europe | |||
| Erica | 1753 | Erica cinerea | 850+ | Afro-Eurasia | ||
| Bejaria | 1771 | Bejaria aestuans | South America to United States | |||
| Elliottia | 1817 | Elliottia racemosa | North America, Japan | |||
| Epigaea | 1753 | Epigaea repens | North America, Asia | |||
| Kalmia | 1753 | Kalmia latifolia | Northern hemisphere | |||
| Kalmiopsis | 1932 | Kalmiopsis leachiana | Oregon | |||
| Phyllodoce | 1806 | Phyllodoce taxifolia | North America, Eurasia | |||
| Rhodothamnus | 1827 | Rhodothamnus chamaecistus | ||||
| Rhododendron | 1753 | Rhododendron ferrugineum | 1000+ | North America, Eurasia, Australia | ||
| Therorhodion | 1914 | Therorhodion camtschaticum | Alaska, Northeast Asia | |||
| Harrimanella | 1901 | Harrimanelloideae | Harrimanella stelleriana | Circumboreal | ||
| Archeria | 1857 | Epacridoideae / Archerieae | None designated | Tasmania, New Zealand | ||
| Andersonia | 1810 | None designated | ca. 50 | Western Australia | ||
| Cosmelia | 1810 | Cosmelia rubra | Western Australia | |||
| Sprengelia | 1794 | Sprengelia incarnata | Australia | |||
| Epacris | 1797 | Epacris longiflora | 30+ | Oceania | ||
| Lysinema | 1810 | None designated | Australia | |||
| Woollsia | 1873 | Woollsia pungens | Australia | |||
| Dielsiodoxa | 2010 | Dielsiodoxa tamariscina | Australia | |||
| Needhamiella | 1965 | Needhamiella pumilio | Western Australia | |||
| Oligarrhena | 1810 | Oligarrhena micrantha | Australia | |||
| Lebetanthus | 1841 | Lebetanthus americana | South America | |||
| Prionotes | 1810 | Prionotes cerinthoides | Tasmania | |||
| Dracophyllum | 1800 | Dracophyllum verticillatum | ca. 100 | Oceania | ||
| Richea | 1810 | Richea dracophylla | Australia, Tasmania | |||
| Sphenotoma | 1828 | Sphenotoma gracilis | ||||
| Acrothamnus | 2005 | Acrothamnus maccraei | 5+ | Oceania | ||
| Acrotriche | 1810 | Acrotriche divaricata | Australia | |||
| Agiortia | 2005 | Agiortia cicatricata | Australia | |||
| Androstoma | 1844 | Androstoma empetrifolia | Australia, New Zealand | |||
| Astroloma | 1810 | none designated | ca. 10 | Australia | ||
| Brachyloma | 1845 | Brachyloma preissii | Australia | |||
| Coleanthera | 1859 | Australia | ||||
| Conostephium | 1837 | Conostephium pendulum | ca. 10 | Australia | ||
| Cyathodes | 1805 (1804) | Cyathodes glauca | 5(?) | Australia | ||
| Cyathopsis | 1864 | Cyathopsis floribunda | New Caledonia | |||
| Decatoca | 1889 | Decatoca spencerii | New Guinea | |||
| Leptecophylla | 1999 | Leptecophylla juniperina | Oceania | |||
| Leucopogon | 1810 | Leucopogon lanceolatus | 150+ | Oceania | ||
| Lissanthe | 1810 | Lissanthe strigosa | Australia | |||
| Melichrus | 1810 | Melichrus procumbens | ca. 10 | Australia | ||
| Monotoca | 1810 | Monotoca scoparia | Australia | |||
| Montitega | 1993 | Montitega dealbata | Australia | |||
| Pentachondra | 1810 | None designated | 4–5 | Australia, New Zealand | ||
| Planocarpa | 1996 | Planocarpa petiolaris | Tasmania | |||
| Styphelia | 1795 ("1793") | Styphelia tubuliflora | Oceania | |||
| Trochocarpa | 1810 | Trochocarpa laurina | 10? | Australia, Malesia | ||
| Andromeda | 1753 | Andromeda polifolia | 1 or 2 | Circumboreal | ||
| Zenobia | 1834 | Zenobia speciosa | Southeastern United States | |||
| Chamaedaphne | 1794 | Chamaedaphne calyculata | Circumboreal | |||
| Diplycosia | 1826 | None designated | ca. 110 | Southeast Asia | ||
| Eubotrys | 1842 ("1843") | Eubotrys racemosa | Eastern United States | |||
| Gaultheria | 1753 | Gaultheria procumbens | ca. 115 | Circumpacific, Americas | ||
| Leucothoe | 1834 | Leucothoe axillaria | United States, East Asia | |||
| Pernettya | 1825 | Pernettya empetrifolia | Southern America, Oceania | |||
| Tepuia | 1939 | Tepuia tatei | South America | |||
| Agarista | 1834 | Agarista nummularia | ca. 30 | Americas, Africa, Madagascar | ||
| Craibiodendron | 1911 | Craibiodendron shanicum | India, China, Indochina | |||
| Lyonia | 1919 | Lyonia ferruginea | United States to Mexico and Caribbeans, East Asia | |||
| Pieris | 1834 | Pieris formosa | United States, Cuba, East Asia | |||
| Oxydendrum | 1839 | Vaccinioideae / Oxydendreae | Oxydendrum arboreum | United States | ||
| Agapetes | 1834 | Agapetes setigera | 80+ | Himalaya | ||
| Anthopteropsis | 1941 | Anthopteropsis insignis | Panama | |||
| Anthopterus | 1839 | Anthopterus racemosus | ca. 20 | Neotropical | ||
| Cavendishia | 1835 ("1836") | Cavendishia nobilis | ca. 100 | Neotropical | ||
| Ceratostema | 1789 | Ceratostema peruvianum | Andes | |||
| Costera | 1910 | Costera ovalifolia | ||||
| Demosthenesia | 1936 | Demosthenesia mandonii | Neotropical | |||
| Didonica | 1977 | Didonica pendula | Neotropical | |||
| Dimorphanthera | None designated | 80+ | Malesia to Australia | |||
| Diogenesia | 1934 | Diogenesia octandra | Eastern Venezuela, Northern Andes | |||
| Disterigma | 1889 ("1890") | Disterigma empetrifolium | ca. 40 | Mexico to Northern South America | ||
| Gaylussacia | 1819 | Gaylussacia buxifolia | Americas | |||
| Gonocalyx | 1856 | Gonocalyx pulcher | Southern America | |||
| Lateropora | 1932 | Lateropora ovata | ||||
| Macleania | 1837 | Macleania floribunda | ca. 50 | Southern Mexico to Peru | ||
| Mycerinus | 1931 | Mycerinus sclerophyllus | Southern America | |||
| Notopora | 1873 | Notopora schomburgkii | ||||
| Oreanthes | 1844 | Oreanthes buxifolius | Neotropical | |||
| Orthaea | 1851 | Orthaea secundiflora | Neotropical | |||
| Paphia | 1864 | Paphia vitiensis | 20+ | Australasia | ||
| Pellegrinia | 1935 | Pellegrinia grandiflora | ||||
| Periclesia [1] | 1935 | Periclesia flexuosa | Ecuador | |||
| Plutarchia | 1936 | Plutarchia rigida | Ecuador, Colombia | |||
| Polyclita | 1936 | Polyclita turbinata | ||||
| Psammisia | 1851 | Psammisia falcata | Neotropical | |||
| Rusbya | 1893 | None designated | Bolivia | |||
| Satyria | 1851 | Satyria warszewiczii | ||||
| Semiramisia | 1851 | Semiramisia speciosa | Ecuador, Venezuela to Peru | |||
| Siphonandra | 1851 | Siphonandra elliptica | Neotropical | |||
| Sphyrospermum | 1835 | Sphyrospermum buxifolium | Neotropical | |||
| Symphysia | 1827 | Symphysia martinicensis | ||||
| Themistoclesia | 1851 | Themistoclesia pendula | Costa Rica to Peru | |||
| Thibaudia | 1805 | Thibaudia mellifera | Neotropical | |||
| Utleya | 1977 | Utleya costaricensis | ||||
| Vaccinium | 1753 | Vaccinium uliginosum | 500+ | Near cosmopolitan |