Vaccinium angustifolium
Vaccinium sect. Cyanococcus
bleuet à feuilles étroites, common lowbush blueberry, early low-bush blueberry, lowbush blueberry, sweet lowbush blueberry
deciduous;
blade dark to pale green or glaucous, elliptic to narrowly elliptic, 15–41 × (5–)6–16(–20) mm, margins usually sharply, uniformly serrate (serrations sometimes minute, tipped with stipitate gland), surfaces glabrous or hairy, especially along abaxial midvein, eglandular abaxially.
usually deciduous, rarely persistent, (abaxial surface hairy or glabrous, adaxial surface usually glabrous).
corymbs, terminal on axillary shoots from buds of previous season.
articulated with calyx tube.
calyx green, glaucous, glabrous;
corolla usually white, cylindric to urceolate, 4–6 mm;
filaments ciliate; (tubules with introrse, elongate pores).
sepals 5;
petals 5, connate for nearly their entire lengths, corolla urceolate to cylindric;
stamens 10, included;
anthers without awns, tubules 2-4 mm, with terminal pores.
black or blue, rarely white, 3–12 mm diam., glabrous.
pseudo 10-locular.
(3–)10–15(–20), ca. 1.2 mm.
(4-)10-25(-40).
= 48.
= 24, 48, 72.
Vaccinium angustifolium
Vaccinium sect. Cyanococcus
Vaccinium angustifolium is extensively harvested from cultivated and wild plants in New England (especially Maine) and in Quebec and the Canadian Maritime Provinces.
(Discussion copyrighted by Flora of North America; reprinted with permission.)
Species 9 (9 in the flora).
Section Cyanococcus contains populations that are all homoploids, regardless of species, and are interfertile; naturally occurring hybrids have been described (S. P. Vander Kloet 1988 and references therein). The blueberries are endemic to North America; large-scale plantings elsewhere have resulted in the establishment of adventive populations.
(Discussion copyrighted by Flora of North America; reprinted with permission.)
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