Vaccinium hirsutum |
Vaccinium sect. Cyanococcus |
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hairy blueberry, small cluster blueberry, woolly berry, wooly berry |
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Habit | Plants forming open colonies, 2–5(–7.5) dm; twigs green, slightly angled, pilose or hairy. | Shrubs, usually erect, 0.1-50 dm, rhizomatous, (twigs of previous season verrucose, perennating buds dimorphic). |
Leaves | deciduous; blade green, elliptic, 23–62 × 10–36 mm, subcoriaceous, margins entire, surfaces densely hairy, eglandular abaxially. |
usually deciduous, rarely persistent, (abaxial surface hairy or glabrous, adaxial surface usually glabrous). |
Inflorescences | corymbs, terminal on axillary shoots from buds of previous season. |
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Pedicels | articulated with calyx tube. |
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Flowers | calyx green, glandular-hairy; corolla white, cylindric, 5–9 mm, (glandular-hairy); filaments hairy. |
sepals 5; petals 5, connate for nearly their entire lengths, corolla urceolate to cylindric; stamens 10, included; anthers without awns, tubules 2-4 mm, with terminal pores. |
Berries | black, 7–9 mm diam., hairy. |
pseudo 10-locular. |
Seeds | 3–9, ca. 1 mm. |
(4-)10-25(-40). |
2n | = 48. |
= 24, 48, 72. |
Vaccinium hirsutum |
Vaccinium sect. Cyanococcus |
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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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North America |
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.) |
Species 9 (9 in the flora). Section Cyanococcus contains populations that are all homoploids, regardless of species, and are interfertile; naturally occurring hybrids have been described (S. P. Vander Kloet 1988 and references therein). The blueberries are endemic to North America; large-scale plantings elsewhere have resulted in the establishment of adventive populations. (Discussion copyrighted by Flora of North America; reprinted with permission.) |
Source | FNA vol. 8, p. 529. | FNA vol. 8, p. 526. |
Parent taxa | Ericaceae > subfam. Vaccinioideae > Vaccinium > sect. Cyanococcus | Ericaceae > subfam. Vaccinioideae > Vaccinium |
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Synonyms | Cyanococcus hirsutus | |
Name authority | Buckley: Amer. J. Sci. Arts 45: 175. 1843 , | A. Gray: Mem. Amer. Acad. Arts, n. s. 3: 53. (1846) |
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