Vaccinium hirsutum |
Vaccinium crassifolium |
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hairy blueberry, small cluster blueberry, woolly berry, wooly berry |
creeping blueberry |
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Habit | Plants forming open colonies, 2–5(–7.5) dm; twigs green, slightly angled, pilose or hairy. | Plants extensively mat-forming (often by layering), with erect branches from lateral buds, rooting and/or swelling into woody burls at nodes; twigs of current year reddish green, terete, finely hairy, not verrucose. |
Leaves | deciduous; blade green, elliptic, 23–62 × 10–36 mm, subcoriaceous, margins entire, surfaces densely hairy, eglandular abaxially. |
blades dark green, elliptic to obovate, (10–)12–15(–39) × (4–)5–7(–24) mm, coriaceous, margins ± entire, surfaces glabrescent. |
Pedicels | 0.1–0.3 cm. |
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Flowers | calyx green, glandular-hairy; corolla white, cylindric, 5–9 mm, (glandular-hairy); filaments hairy. |
calyx lobes distinct; corolla usually white, 3–5 mm; filaments ciliate. |
Berries | black, 7–9 mm diam., hairy. |
black, 6–8 mm diam., insipid. |
Seeds | 3–9, ca. 1 mm. |
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2n | = 48. |
= 24. |
Vaccinium hirsutum |
Vaccinium crassifolium |
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Phenology | Flowering summer. | Flowering late spring. |
Habitat | Dry oak-pine ridges and mountain meadows | Coastal plain, open pine flatwoods, pine barrens, pocosin ecotones and associated disturbed areas, road cuts, fire trails, mown roadsides |
Elevation | 600-1500 m (2000-4900 ft) | 0-200 m (0-700 ft) |
Distribution |
GA; NC; TN
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GA; NC; SC; VA
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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. 525. |
Parent taxa | Ericaceae > subfam. Vaccinioideae > Vaccinium > sect. Cyanococcus | Ericaceae > subfam. Vaccinioideae > Vaccinium > sect. Herpothamnus |
Sibling taxa | ||
Synonyms | Cyanococcus hirsutus | Herpothamnus crassifolius, V. crassifolium subsp. sempervirens, V. sempervirens |
Name authority | Buckley: Amer. J. Sci. Arts 45: 175. 1843 , | Andrews: Bot. Repos. 2: plate 105. (1800) |
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