Vaccinium hirsutum |
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hairy blueberry, small cluster blueberry, woolly berry, wooly berry |
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Habit | Plants forming open colonies, 2–5(–7.5) dm; twigs green, slightly angled, pilose or hairy. |
Leaves | deciduous; blade green, elliptic, 23–62 × 10–36 mm, subcoriaceous, margins entire, surfaces densely hairy, eglandular abaxially. |
Flowers | calyx green, glandular-hairy; corolla white, cylindric, 5–9 mm, (glandular-hairy); filaments hairy. |
Berries | black, 7–9 mm diam., hairy. |
Seeds | 3–9, ca. 1 mm. |
2n | = 48. |
Vaccinium hirsutum |
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Phenology | Flowering summer. |
Habitat | Dry oak-pine ridges and mountain meadows |
Elevation | 600-1500 m (2000-4900 ft) |
Distribution |
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.) |
Source | FNA vol. 8, p. 529. |
Parent taxa | Ericaceae > subfam. Vaccinioideae > Vaccinium > sect. Cyanococcus |
Sibling taxa | |
Synonyms | Cyanococcus hirsutus |
Name authority | Buckley: Amer. J. Sci. Arts 45: 175. 1843 , |
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