Vaccinium hirsutum
Vaccinium membranaceum
hairy blueberry, small cluster blueberry, woolly berry, wooly berry
big huckleberry, black blueberry, black huckleberry, mountain huckleberry, square-twig blueberry, tall huckleberry, thin-leaf huckleberry
deciduous;
blade green, elliptic, 23–62 × 10–36 mm, subcoriaceous, margins entire, surfaces densely hairy, eglandular abaxially.
blades usually green, broadly elliptic to ovate, 25–50 × 11–23 mm, margins sharply serrate, surfaces glandular abaxially.
calyx green, glandular-hairy;
corolla white, cylindric, 5–9 mm, (glandular-hairy);
filaments hairy.
calyx green, obscurely lobed, glabrous;
corolla white, cream, yellowish pink, or bronze, globose to urceolate, 3–5 × 5–7 mm, thin, glaucous;
filaments glabrous.
black, 7–9 mm diam., hairy.
shiny or dull black or deep purple, rarely red or white, 9–13 mm diam.
3–9, ca. 1 mm.
ca. 1 mm.
= 48.
= 48.
Vaccinium hirsutum
Vaccinium membranaceum
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 membranaceum is, by far, the most widely commercially utilized western huckleberry for fruit and is harvested extensively from the wild. This species served as an especially important source of food for native peoples throughout western North America, and the dried berries were used for winter food and trade.
(Discussion copyrighted by Flora of North America; reprinted with permission.)
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