Vaccinium hirsutum
Vaccinium angustifolium
hairy blueberry, small cluster blueberry, woolly berry, wooly berry
bleuet à feuilles étroites, common lowbush blueberry, early low-bush blueberry, lowbush blueberry, sweet lowbush blueberry
deciduous;
blade green, elliptic, 23–62 × 10–36 mm, subcoriaceous, margins entire, surfaces densely hairy, eglandular abaxially.
deciduous;
blade dark to pale green or glaucous, elliptic to narrowly elliptic, 15–41 × (5–)6–16(–20) mm, margins usually sharply, uniformly serrate (serrations sometimes minute, tipped with stipitate gland), surfaces glabrous or hairy, especially along abaxial midvein, eglandular abaxially.
calyx green, glandular-hairy;
corolla white, cylindric, 5–9 mm, (glandular-hairy);
filaments hairy.
calyx green, glaucous, glabrous;
corolla usually white, cylindric to urceolate, 4–6 mm;
filaments ciliate; (tubules with introrse, elongate pores).
black, 7–9 mm diam., hairy.
black or blue, rarely white, 3–12 mm diam., glabrous.
3–9, ca. 1 mm.
(3–)10–15(–20), ca. 1.2 mm.
= 48.
= 48.
Vaccinium hirsutum
Vaccinium angustifolium
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.)
Vaccinium angustifolium is extensively harvested from cultivated and wild plants in New England (especially Maine) and in Quebec and the Canadian Maritime Provinces.
(Discussion copyrighted by Flora of North America; reprinted with permission.)
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