Vaccinium hirsutum |
Vaccinium erythrocarpum |
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hairy blueberry, small cluster blueberry, woolly berry, wooly berry |
dingleberry, southern mountain cranberry |
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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. |
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Flowers | calyx green, glandular-hairy; corolla white, cylindric, 5–9 mm, (glandular-hairy); filaments hairy. |
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Berries | black, 7–9 mm diam., hairy. |
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Seeds | 3–9, ca. 1 mm. |
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e | United States |
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2n | = 48. |
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Vaccinium hirsutum |
Vaccinium erythrocarpum |
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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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GA; NC; TN; VA; WV; se Asia
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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.) |
Subspecies 2 (1 in the flora). Subspecies japonicum (Miquel) Kloet [V. japonicum Miquel] is disjunct in southeastern Asia (S. P. Vander Kloet and B. A. Bohm 1991). (Discussion copyrighted by Flora of North America; reprinted with permission.) |
Source | FNA vol. 8, p. 529. | FNA vol. 8, p. 517. |
Parent taxa | Ericaceae > subfam. Vaccinioideae > Vaccinium > sect. Cyanococcus | Ericaceae > subfam. Vaccinioideae > Vaccinium > sect. Oxycoccoides |
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Synonyms | Cyanococcus hirsutus | Hugeria erythrocarpa, Oxycoccus erectus |
Name authority | Buckley: Amer. J. Sci. Arts 45: 175. 1843 , | Michaux: Fl. Bor.-Amer. 1: 227. (1803) |
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