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airelle gazonnante, dwarf bilberry, dwarf blueberry, dwarf huckleberry

Darrow's blueberry, Darrow's evergreen blueberry, southern highbush blueberry

Habit Plants forming dense colonies, 0.3–6 dm, superficially rhizomatous; twigs yellow-green, reddish green, or reddish brown, terete to somewhat angled, finely puberulent or, rarely, glabrous. Plants forming extensive open colonies, 1–15 dm; twigs pale green, glaucous, ± terete, puberulent.
Leaves

blades green, usually oblanceolate, sometimes obovate or narrowly elliptic, 10–30 × 3–12 mm, margins usually serrulate from apex to at least mid blade, surfaces usually glandular abaxially, usually glabrous adaxially.

persistent for 1+ years;

blade usually pale green abaxially, dark green adaxially, elliptic, 7–11 × 3–5 mm, coriaceous, margins entire, (often inrolled), surfaces usually glabrous abaxially (rarely minutely hairy along midvein).

Flowers

calyx pale green, lobes vestigial, glabrous;

corolla white, white with pink striping, or pink, cylindric-urceolate to globose, 4–7 × 3–5 mm, thin, glaucous;

filaments glabrous.

calyx greenish, glabrous;

corolla white tinged with pink or red, ± urceolate, 4–6 mm;

filaments ciliate.

Berries

usually blue, glaucous, rarely dull black, 5–9 mm diam.

blue, glaucous, 8–10 mm diam., glabrous.

Seeds

ca. 1 mm.

10–20, ca. 1 mm.

2n

= 24.

= 24.

Vaccinium cespitosum

Vaccinium darrowii

Phenology Flowering late spring-mid summer. Flowering winter–spring.
Habitat Open, usually dry habitats, from lowland to subalpine areas Low flatwoods, scrubby flatwoods, oak-scrub, palmetto scrubs and swales
Elevation 0-4500 m (0-14800 ft) 0-30 m (0-100 ft)
Distribution
from FNA
AK; CA; CO; ID; ME; MI; MN; MT; NH; NM; NY; OR; VT; WA; WI; WY; AB; BC; MB; NB; NL; NS; NT; NU; ON; QC; SK; YT; Mexico (Chihuahua, Durango, Hidalgo); Central America (Guatemala)
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from FNA
AL; FL; GA; LA; MS
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Source FNA vol. 8, p. 524. FNA vol. 8, p. 527.
Parent taxa Ericaceae > subfam. Vaccinioideae > Vaccinium > sect. Myrtillus Ericaceae > subfam. Vaccinioideae > Vaccinium > sect. Cyanococcus
Sibling taxa
V. angustifolium, V. arboreum, V. boreale, 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. 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 V. arbuscula, V. caespitosum var. arbuscula, V. caespitosum var. paludicola, V. geminiflorum, V. nivictum, V. paludicola V. myrsinites var. glaucum
Name authority Michaux: Fl. Bor.-Amer. 1: 234. 1803 , Camp: Bull. Torrey Bot. Club 69: 240. 1942 (as darrowi) ,
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