Vaccinium boreale |
Vaccinium tenellum |
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bleuet boréal, northern blueberry, sweet hurts |
small black blueberry, southern blueberry |
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Habit | Plants forming small, dense colonies, 0.1–0.9 dm, (superficially rhizomatous); twigs green, (delicate), angled, (intricately branched), hairy in lines. | Plants forming extensive, open colonies, 1–7.5 dm; twigs yellowish green, ± terete, hairy. |
Leaves | deciduous; blade bright green, narrowly elliptic, 8–21 × 2–6 mm, membranous, margins sharply, uniformly serrate, surfaces usually glabrous, eglandular abaxially. |
deciduous, rarely persistent; blade green, spatulate to elliptic, 13–40 × 3–17 mm, subcoriaceous, margins sharply to obscurely serrate, surfaces glandular abaxially, hairy especially when young, rarely glabrous. |
Flowers | calyx green, glaucous, glabrous (sometimes ciliate); corolla white to greenish white, cylindric, 3–4 mm; filaments ciliate. |
calyx pale green, sometimes hairy; corolla usually white tinged with pink, cylindric, 5–9 mm; filaments ± hairy. |
Berries | blue, glaucous, 3–5 mm diam., glabrous. |
black, 6–8 mm diam., sometimes puberulent. |
Seeds | 10–30, ca. 1.1 mm. |
5–25, ca. 1 mm. |
2n | = 24. |
= 24. |
Vaccinium boreale |
Vaccinium tenellum |
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Phenology | Flowering late spring–early summer. | Flowering winter–spring. |
Habitat | Headlands, open, rocky uplands, alpine heaths and meadows, forest-tundra. 0-2000 m | Dry sand hills, pine barrens, scrubby oak woods, open pine parkland, and flatwoods subject to burning |
Elevation | 0-200 m (0-700 ft) | |
Distribution |
ME; NH; NY; VT; NB; NL; NS; QC
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AL; FL; GA; MS; NC; SC; VA
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Source | FNA vol. 8, p. 528. | FNA vol. 8, p. 528. |
Parent taxa | Ericaceae > subfam. Vaccinioideae > Vaccinium > sect. Cyanococcus | Ericaceae > subfam. Vaccinioideae > Vaccinium > sect. Cyanococcus |
Sibling taxa | ||
Synonyms | Cyanococcus tenellus | |
Name authority | I. V. Hall & Aalders: Amer. J. Bot. 48: 200. 1961 , | Aiton: Hort. Kew. 2: 12. 1789 , |
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