Vaccinium hirsutum |
Vaccinium boreale |
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hairy blueberry, small cluster blueberry, woolly berry, wooly berry |
bleuet boréal, northern blueberry, sweet hurts |
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Habit | Plants forming open colonies, 2–5(–7.5) dm; twigs green, slightly angled, pilose or hairy. | Plants forming small, dense colonies, 0.1–0.9 dm, (superficially rhizomatous); twigs green, (delicate), angled, (intricately branched), hairy in lines. |
Leaves | deciduous; blade green, elliptic, 23–62 × 10–36 mm, subcoriaceous, margins entire, surfaces densely hairy, eglandular abaxially. |
deciduous; blade bright green, narrowly elliptic, 8–21 × 2–6 mm, membranous, margins sharply, uniformly serrate, surfaces usually glabrous, eglandular abaxially. |
Flowers | calyx green, glandular-hairy; corolla white, cylindric, 5–9 mm, (glandular-hairy); filaments hairy. |
calyx green, glaucous, glabrous (sometimes ciliate); corolla white to greenish white, cylindric, 3–4 mm; filaments ciliate. |
Berries | black, 7–9 mm diam., hairy. |
blue, glaucous, 3–5 mm diam., glabrous. |
Seeds | 3–9, ca. 1 mm. |
10–30, ca. 1.1 mm. |
2n | = 48. |
= 24. |
Vaccinium hirsutum |
Vaccinium boreale |
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Phenology | Flowering summer. | Flowering late spring–early summer. |
Habitat | Dry oak-pine ridges and mountain meadows | Headlands, open, rocky uplands, alpine heaths and meadows, forest-tundra. 0-2000 m |
Elevation | 600-1500 m (2000-4900 ft) | |
Distribution |
GA; NC; TN
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ME; NH; NY; VT; NB; NL; NS; QC
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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.) |
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Source | FNA vol. 8, p. 529. | FNA vol. 8, p. 528. |
Parent taxa | Ericaceae > subfam. Vaccinioideae > Vaccinium > sect. Cyanococcus | Ericaceae > subfam. Vaccinioideae > Vaccinium > sect. Cyanococcus |
Sibling taxa | ||
Synonyms | Cyanococcus hirsutus | |
Name authority | Buckley: Amer. J. Sci. Arts 45: 175. 1843 , | I. V. Hall & Aalders: Amer. J. Bot. 48: 200. 1961 , |
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