Vaccinium corymbosum
Vaccinium membranaceum
bleuet en corymbe, high-bush blueberry, highbush huckleberry, New Jersey blueberry, smallflower blueberry, southern blueberry
big huckleberry, black blueberry, black huckleberry, mountain huckleberry, square-twig blueberry, tall huckleberry, thin-leaf huckleberry
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.
blades usually green, broadly elliptic to ovate, 25–50 × 11–23 mm, margins sharply serrate, surfaces glandular abaxially.
calyx green, glabrous;
corolla white to pink, ± cylindric, 5–12 mm;
filaments usually ciliate.
calyx green, obscurely lobed, glabrous;
corolla white, cream, yellowish pink, or bronze, globose to urceolate, 3–5 × 5–7 mm, thin, glaucous;
filaments glabrous.
dull black to blue, glaucous, 4–12 mm diam., glabrous.
shiny or dull black or deep purple, rarely red or white, 9–13 mm diam.
10–20(–25), ca. 1.2 mm.
ca. 1 mm.
= 24, 48, 72.
= 48.
Vaccinium corymbosum
Vaccinium membranaceum
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.)
Vaccinium membranaceum is, by far, the most widely commercially utilized western huckleberry for fruit and is harvested extensively from the wild. This species served as an especially important source of food for native peoples throughout western North America, and the dried berries were used for winter food and trade.
(Discussion copyrighted by Flora of North America; reprinted with permission.)
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