Vaccinium corymbosum |
Vaccinium darrowii |
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bleuet en corymbe, high-bush blueberry, highbush huckleberry, New Jersey blueberry, smallflower blueberry, southern blueberry |
Darrow's blueberry, Darrow's evergreen blueberry, southern highbush blueberry |
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Habit | Plants erect, not colonial, sometimes suckering, 10–50 dm; twigs green, angular to terete, usually hairy in lines. | Plants forming extensive open colonies, 1–15 dm; twigs pale green, glaucous, ± terete, puberulent. |
Leaves | usually deciduous; blade dark green, ovate to narrowly elliptic, 15–70 × 10–25 mm, subcoriaceous, margins sharply serrate or entire, surfaces glabrous or hairy abaxially. |
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 green, glabrous; corolla white to pink, ± cylindric, 5–12 mm; filaments usually ciliate. |
calyx greenish, glabrous; corolla white tinged with pink or red, ± urceolate, 4–6 mm; filaments ciliate. |
Berries | dull black to blue, glaucous, 4–12 mm diam., glabrous. |
blue, glaucous, 8–10 mm diam., glabrous. |
Seeds | 10–20(–25), ca. 1.2 mm. |
10–20, ca. 1 mm. |
2n | = 24, 48, 72. |
= 24. |
Vaccinium corymbosum |
Vaccinium darrowii |
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Phenology | Flowering spring(-early summer). | Flowering winter–spring. |
Habitat | Open swamps, bogs, sandy margins of lakes, ponds, and streams, flatwoods, gray-birch scrub, pine barrens, mires, bay heads, upland ericaceous meadows, upland woods, ravines, mountain summits | Low flatwoods, scrubby flatwoods, oak-scrub, palmetto scrubs and swales |
Elevation | 0-1600 m (0-5200 ft) | 0-30 m (0-100 ft) |
Distribution |
AL; CT; DE; FL; GA; IL; IN; KY; LA; MA; MD; ME; MI; MO; MS; NC; NH; NJ; NY; OH; OK; PA; RI; SC; TN; TX; VA; VT; WA; WI; WV; BC; NB; NS; ON; QC [Introduced in Europe (Britain, The Netherlands), e Asia (Japan), Pacific Islands (New Zealand)]
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AL; FL; GA; LA; MS
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Discussion | Every morphological variant of the high-bush blueberry has been named formally at one time or another. At least 25 such taxa have been raised to specific rank; none is distinct throughout its putative range nor has the properties normally associated with biological species, including Vaccinium atrococcum and V. elliottii. See S. P. Vander Kloet (1980) for a complete list of synonyms. Feral populations readily become established wherever cultivars have been planted, e.g., Britain, British Columbia, Japan, Missouri, The Netherlands, New Zealand, Washington, and Wisconsin. (Discussion copyrighted by Flora of North America; reprinted with permission.) |
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Source | FNA vol. 8, p. 526. | FNA vol. 8, p. 527. |
Parent taxa | Ericaceae > subfam. Vaccinioideae > Vaccinium > sect. Cyanococcus | Ericaceae > subfam. Vaccinioideae > Vaccinium > sect. Cyanococcus |
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Synonyms | Cyanococcus amoenus, Cyanococcus atrococcus, Cyanococcus corymbosus, Cyanococcus cuthbertii, Cyanococcus elliottii, Cyanococcus fuscatus, Cyanococcus holophyllus, Cyanococcus margarettae, Cyanococcus simulatus, Cyanococcus virgatus, V. amoenum, V. atrococcum, V. australe, V. constablaei, V. corymbosum var. albiflorum, V. corymbosum var. glabrum, V. elliottii, V. formosum, V. fuscatum, V. simulatum, V. virgatum | V. myrsinites var. glaucum |
Name authority | Linnaeus: Sp. Pl. 1: 350. (1753) | Camp: Bull. Torrey Bot. Club 69: 240. 1942 (as darrowi) , |
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