Vaccinium hirsutum |
Vaccinium myrtilloides |
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hairy blueberry, small cluster blueberry, woolly berry, wooly berry |
bleuet fausse-myrtille, sour-top blueberry, sourtop, velvet-leaf blueberry, velvetleaf huckleberry |
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Habit | Plants forming open colonies, 2–5(–7.5) dm; twigs green, slightly angled, pilose or hairy. | Plants forming ± open colonies, 1–11.5 dm; twigs greenish brown, terete, pilose or hairy. |
Leaves | deciduous; blade green, elliptic, 23–62 × 10–36 mm, subcoriaceous, margins entire, surfaces densely hairy, eglandular abaxially. |
deciduous; blade green, elliptic, 23–35 × 8–16 mm, membranous to subcoriaceous, margins entire, surfaces ± densely hairy (sometimes mostly on veins), eglandular, sometimes glabrescent. |
Flowers | calyx green, glandular-hairy; corolla white, cylindric, 5–9 mm, (glandular-hairy); filaments hairy. |
calyx green, glabrous, (eglandular); corolla greenish white to pink, urceolate, 3–5 mm, (eglandular); filaments usually hairy. |
Berries | black, 7–9 mm diam., hairy. |
blue, glaucous, 6–8 mm diam., glabrous. |
Seeds | 3–9, ca. 1 mm. |
10–40, ca. 1 mm. |
2n | = 48. |
= 24. |
Vaccinium hirsutum |
Vaccinium myrtilloides |
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Phenology | Flowering summer. | Flowering late spring–early summer. |
Habitat | Dry oak-pine ridges and mountain meadows | Open or disturbed sites in boreal forest, muskegs, bogs, barrens, headlands, outcrops, mountain meadows |
Elevation | 600-1500 m (2000-4900 ft) | 0-1700 m (0-5600 ft) |
Distribution |
GA; NC; TN
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CT; IA; IL; IN; MA; ME; MN; MT; NH; NY; OH; PA; VT; WI; WV; AB; BC; LB; MB; NB; NS; NT; ON; PE; QC; SK
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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. 529. |
Parent taxa | Ericaceae > subfam. Vaccinioideae > Vaccinium > sect. Cyanococcus | Ericaceae > subfam. Vaccinioideae > Vaccinium > sect. Cyanococcus |
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Synonyms | Cyanococcus hirsutus | Cyanococcus canadensis, V. angustifolium var. myrtilloides, V. canadense |
Name authority | Buckley: Amer. J. Sci. Arts 45: 175. 1843 , | Michaux: Fl. Bor.-Amer. 1: 234. 1803 , |
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