Vaccinium cespitosum |
Vaccinium hirsutum |
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airelle gazonnante, dwarf bilberry, dwarf blueberry, dwarf huckleberry |
hairy blueberry, small cluster blueberry, woolly berry, wooly berry |
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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 open colonies, 2–5(–7.5) dm; twigs green, slightly angled, pilose or hairy. |
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. |
deciduous; blade green, elliptic, 23–62 × 10–36 mm, subcoriaceous, margins entire, surfaces densely hairy, eglandular abaxially. |
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 green, glandular-hairy; corolla white, cylindric, 5–9 mm, (glandular-hairy); filaments hairy. |
Berries | usually blue, glaucous, rarely dull black, 5–9 mm diam. |
black, 7–9 mm diam., hairy. |
Seeds | ca. 1 mm. |
3–9, ca. 1 mm. |
2n | = 24. |
= 48. |
Vaccinium cespitosum |
Vaccinium hirsutum |
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Phenology | Flowering late spring-mid summer. | Flowering summer. |
Habitat | Open, usually dry habitats, from lowland to subalpine areas | Dry oak-pine ridges and mountain meadows |
Elevation | 0-4500 m (0-14800 ft) | 600-1500 m (2000-4900 ft) |
Distribution |
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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GA; NC; TN
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Discussion | 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.) |
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Source | FNA vol. 8, p. 524. | FNA vol. 8, p. 529. |
Parent taxa | Ericaceae > subfam. Vaccinioideae > Vaccinium > sect. Myrtillus | Ericaceae > subfam. Vaccinioideae > Vaccinium > sect. Cyanococcus |
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Synonyms | V. arbuscula, V. caespitosum var. arbuscula, V. caespitosum var. paludicola, V. geminiflorum, V. nivictum, V. paludicola | Cyanococcus hirsutus |
Name authority | Michaux: Fl. Bor.-Amer. 1: 234. 1803 , | Buckley: Amer. J. Sci. Arts 45: 175. 1843 , |
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