Flora of North America species comparison

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Vaccinium boreale

Vaccinium crassifolium

bleuet boréal, northern blueberry, sweet hurts

creeping blueberry
Habit Plants forming small, dense colonies, 0.1–0.9 dm, (superficially rhizomatous); twigs green, (delicate), angled, (intricately branched), hairy in lines. Plants extensively mat-forming (often by layering), with erect branches from lateral buds, rooting and/or swelling into woody burls at nodes; twigs of current year reddish green, terete, finely hairy, not verrucose.
Leaves

deciduous;

blade bright green, narrowly elliptic, 8–21 × 2–6 mm, membranous, margins sharply, uniformly serrate, surfaces usually glabrous, eglandular abaxially.

blades dark green, elliptic to obovate, (10–)12–15(–39) × (4–)5–7(–24) mm, coriaceous, margins ± entire, surfaces glabrescent.
Pedicels

0.1–0.3 cm.
Flowers

calyx green, glaucous, glabrous (sometimes ciliate);

corolla white to greenish white, cylindric, 3–4 mm;

filaments ciliate.

calyx lobes distinct;

corolla usually white, 3–5 mm;

filaments ciliate.
Berries

blue, glaucous, 3–5 mm diam., glabrous.

black, 6–8 mm diam., insipid.
Seeds

10–30, ca. 1.1 mm.

2n

= 24.

= 24.

Vaccinium boreale

Vaccinium crassifolium
Phenology Flowering late spring–early summer. Flowering late spring.
Habitat Headlands, open, rocky uplands, alpine heaths and meadows, forest-tundra. 0-2000 m Coastal plain, open pine flatwoods, pine barrens, pocosin ecotones and associated disturbed areas, road cuts, fire trails, mown roadsides
Elevation 0-200 m (0-700 ft)
Distribution
from FNA
ME; NH; NY; VT; NB; NL; NS; QC
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from FNA
GA; NC; SC; VA
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Source FNA vol. 8, p. 528. FNA vol. 8, p. 525.
Parent taxa Ericaceae > subfam. Vaccinioideae > Vaccinium > sect. Cyanococcus Ericaceae > subfam. Vaccinioideae > Vaccinium > sect. Herpothamnus
Sibling taxa
V. angustifolium, V. arboreum, 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. 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
Synonyms Herpothamnus crassifolius, V. crassifolium subsp. sempervirens, V. sempervirens
Name authority I. V. Hall & Aalders: Amer. J. Bot. 48: 200. 1961 , Andrews: Bot. Repos. 2: plate 105. (1800)
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