Vaccinium hirsutum |
Vaccinium macrocarpon |
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hairy blueberry, small cluster blueberry, woolly berry, wooly berry |
American cranberry, canneberge à gros fruits, cranberry, cultivated cranberry, large cranberry |
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Habit | Plants forming open colonies, 2–5(–7.5) dm; twigs green, slightly angled, pilose or hairy. | Plants often ascending, shoots 0.4–1.5 dm. |
Leaves | deciduous; blade green, elliptic, 23–62 × 10–36 mm, subcoriaceous, margins entire, surfaces densely hairy, eglandular abaxially. |
blades glaucous abaxially, green adaxially, usually narrowly elliptic to elliptic, rarely oblong, 5–18 × 2–55 mm, margins entire, slightly revolute. |
Inflorescences | in axils of leaflike bracts at base of current year’s shoots. |
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Pedicels | nodding, slender, 2–3 cm, bracteolate; bracteoles 2, greenish white, scalelike, 1–2 mm wide. |
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Flowers | calyx green, glandular-hairy; corolla white, cylindric, 5–9 mm, (glandular-hairy); filaments hairy. |
calyx lobes relatively small; corolla strongly reflexed at anthesis, white to pink; filaments hairy; anther tubules 1–2 mm. |
Berries | black, 7–9 mm diam., hairy. |
red to pink, 9–14 mm diam., smooth. |
Seeds | 3–9, ca. 1 mm. |
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2n | = 48. |
= 24. |
Vaccinium hirsutum |
Vaccinium macrocarpon |
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Phenology | Flowering summer. | Flowering late spring–early summer. |
Habitat | Dry oak-pine ridges and mountain meadows | Bogs, swamps, mires, wet shores and headlands |
Elevation | 600-1500 m (2000-4900 ft) | 0-1400 m (0-4600 ft) |
Distribution |
GA; NC; TN
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CT; DC; DE; IL; IN; MA; MD; ME; MI; MN; NC; NH; NJ; NY; OH; OR; PA; RI; TN; VA; VT; WA; WI; WV; BC; NB; NF; NS; ON; PE; QC; SPM [Introduced in Europe]
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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.) |
Vaccinium macrocarpon is introduced and escaping elsewhere (British Columbia, Oregon, Washington) with respect to its normal range in eastern North America. (Discussion copyrighted by Flora of North America; reprinted with permission.) |
Source | FNA vol. 8, p. 529. | FNA vol. 8, p. 519. |
Parent taxa | Ericaceae > subfam. Vaccinioideae > Vaccinium > sect. Cyanococcus | Ericaceae > subfam. Vaccinioideae > Vaccinium > sect. Oxycoccus |
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Synonyms | Cyanococcus hirsutus | Oxycoccus macrocarpus |
Name authority | Buckley: Amer. J. Sci. Arts 45: 175. 1843 , | Aiton: Hort. Kew. 2: 13, plate 7. (1789) |
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