Vaccinium hirsutum |
Vaccinium darrowii |
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hairy blueberry, small cluster blueberry, woolly berry, wooly berry |
Darrow's blueberry, Darrow's evergreen blueberry, southern highbush blueberry |
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Habit | Plants forming open colonies, 2–5(–7.5) dm; twigs green, slightly angled, pilose or hairy. | Plants forming extensive open colonies, 1–15 dm; twigs pale green, glaucous, ± terete, puberulent. |
Leaves | deciduous; blade green, elliptic, 23–62 × 10–36 mm, subcoriaceous, margins entire, surfaces densely hairy, eglandular abaxially. |
persistent for 1+ years; blade usually pale green abaxially, dark green adaxially, elliptic, 7–11 × 3–5 mm, coriaceous, margins entire, (often inrolled), surfaces usually glabrous abaxially (rarely minutely hairy along midvein). |
Flowers | calyx green, glandular-hairy; corolla white, cylindric, 5–9 mm, (glandular-hairy); filaments hairy. |
calyx greenish, glabrous; corolla white tinged with pink or red, ± urceolate, 4–6 mm; filaments ciliate. |
Berries | black, 7–9 mm diam., hairy. |
blue, glaucous, 8–10 mm diam., glabrous. |
Seeds | 3–9, ca. 1 mm. |
10–20, ca. 1 mm. |
2n | = 48. |
= 24. |
Vaccinium hirsutum |
Vaccinium darrowii |
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Phenology | Flowering summer. | Flowering winter–spring. |
Habitat | Dry oak-pine ridges and mountain meadows | Low flatwoods, scrubby flatwoods, oak-scrub, palmetto scrubs and swales |
Elevation | 600-1500 m (2000-4900 ft) | 0-30 m (0-100 ft) |
Distribution |
GA; NC; TN
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AL; FL; GA; LA; MS
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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. 527. |
Parent taxa | Ericaceae > subfam. Vaccinioideae > Vaccinium > sect. Cyanococcus | Ericaceae > subfam. Vaccinioideae > Vaccinium > sect. Cyanococcus |
Sibling taxa | ||
Synonyms | Cyanococcus hirsutus | V. myrsinites var. glaucum |
Name authority | Buckley: Amer. J. Sci. Arts 45: 175. 1843 , | Camp: Bull. Torrey Bot. Club 69: 240. 1942 (as darrowi) , |
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