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airelle gazonnante, dwarf bilberry, dwarf blueberry, dwarf huckleberry
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small black blueberry, southern blueberry
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| 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, 1–7.5 dm; twigs yellowish green, ± terete, hairy. |
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, 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. |
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 pale green, sometimes hairy; corolla usually white tinged with pink, cylindric, 5–9 mm; filaments ± hairy. |
usually blue, glaucous, rarely dull black, 5–9 mm diam. |
black, 6–8 mm diam., sometimes puberulent. |
ca. 1 mm. |
5–25, ca. 1 mm. |
= 24. |
= 24. |
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| Flowering late spring-mid summer. |
Flowering winter–spring. |
| Open, usually dry habitats, from lowland to subalpine areas |
Dry sand hills, pine barrens, scrubby oak woods, open pine parkland, and flatwoods subject to burning |
| 0-4500 m (0-14800 ft) |
0-200 m (0-700 ft) |
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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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AL; FL; GA; MS; NC; SC; VA
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| FNA vol. 8, p. 524. |
FNA vol. 8, p. 528. |
| Ericaceae > subfam. Vaccinioideae > Vaccinium > sect. Myrtillus |
Ericaceae > subfam. Vaccinioideae > Vaccinium > sect. Cyanococcus |
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. 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. uliginosum, V. vitis-idaea |
| V. arbuscula, V. caespitosum var. arbuscula, V. caespitosum var. paludicola, V. geminiflorum, V. nivictum, V. paludicola |
Cyanococcus tenellus |
| Michaux: Fl. Bor.-Amer. 1: 234. 1803 , |
Aiton: Hort. Kew. 2: 12. 1789 , |
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