Flora of North America species comparison

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Vaccinium arboreum

Vaccinium hirsutum

farkleberry, sparkleberry

hairy blueberry, small cluster blueberry, woolly berry, wooly berry
Habit Shrubs or trees, trunks to 35 cm diam. at breast height; twigs of current season reddish green, glabrous, glaucous, or glandular-hairy, not verrucose. Plants forming open colonies, 2–5(–7.5) dm; twigs green, slightly angled, pilose or hairy.
Leaves

blades pale green, glaucous, obovate to oblong, 22–40 × 12–20 mm, coriaceous, surfaces glabrous or glandular-hairy abaxially, glabrous and lustrous adaxially.

deciduous;

blade green, elliptic, 23–62 × 10–36 mm, subcoriaceous, margins entire, surfaces densely hairy, eglandular abaxially.
Inflorescence

bracts ± persistent.

Pedicels

slender, 0.8–1.2 cm.

Flowers

calyx 21–29 × 7–13 mm;

corolla white, 3–5 mm;

filaments ciliate.

calyx green, glandular-hairy;

corolla white, cylindric, 5–9 mm, (glandular-hairy);

filaments hairy.
Berries

shiny black, 7–9 mm diam. 2n = 24.

black, 7–9 mm diam., hairy.
Seeds

3–9, ca. 1 mm.
2n

= 48.

Vaccinium arboreum

Vaccinium hirsutum
Phenology Flowering spring. Flowering summer.
Habitat Sandy or rocky habitats, usually xeric woodlands Dry oak-pine ridges and mountain meadows
Elevation 0-800 m (0-2600 ft) 600-1500 m (2000-4900 ft)
Distribution
from FNA
AL; AR; FL; GA; IL; IN; KS; KY; LA; MO; MS; NC; OK; SC; TN; TX; VA
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from FNA
GA; NC; TN
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Discussion

Vaccinium arboreum is rare and local in Illinois, Indiana, Kansas, Kentucky, and Virginia.

(Discussion copyrighted by Flora of North America; reprinted with permission.)

Vaccinium hirsutum is uncommon (but not threatened) in Tennessee, rare in North Carolina, and probably extirpated in Georgia.

(Discussion copyrighted by Flora of North America; reprinted with permission.)
Source FNA vol. 8, p. 525. FNA vol. 8, p. 529.
Parent taxa Ericaceae > subfam. Vaccinioideae > Vaccinium > sect. Batodendron Ericaceae > subfam. Vaccinioideae > Vaccinium > sect. Cyanococcus
Sibling taxa
V. angustifolium, V. boreale, V. cespitosum, V. corymbosum, V. crassifolium, V. darrowii, V. deliciosum, V. erythrocarpum, V. hirsutum, V. macrocarpon, V. membranaceum, V. myrsinites, V. myrtilloides, V. myrtillus, V. ovalifolium, V. ovatum, V. oxycoccos, V. pallidum, V. parvifolium, V. scoparium, V. stamineum, V. tenellum, V. uliginosum, V. vitis-idaea
V. angustifolium, V. arboreum, V. boreale, V. cespitosum, V. corymbosum, V. crassifolium, V. darrowii, V. deliciosum, V. erythrocarpum, V. macrocarpon, V. membranaceum, V. myrsinites, V. myrtilloides, V. myrtillus, V. ovalifolium, V. ovatum, V. oxycoccos, V. pallidum, V. parvifolium, V. scoparium, V. stamineum, V. tenellum, V. uliginosum, V. vitis-idaea
Synonyms Batodendron arboreum, V. arboreum var. glaucescens Cyanococcus hirsutus
Name authority Marshall: Arbust. Amer., 157. 1785 , Buckley: Amer. J. Sci. Arts 45: 175. 1843 ,
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