Vaccinium hirsutum |
Vaccinium stamineum |
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hairy blueberry, small cluster blueberry, woolly berry, wooly berry |
deerberry, southern gooseberry |
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Habit | Plants forming open colonies, 2–5(–7.5) dm; twigs green, slightly angled, pilose or hairy. | Plants frequently crown-forming, suckering when disturbed, forming small or extensive colonies; twigs of current season variously colored, most often green or glaucous, glabrous to densely hairy, sometimes pilose or glandular (not verrucose). |
Leaves | deciduous; blade green, elliptic, 23–62 × 10–36 mm, subcoriaceous, margins entire, surfaces densely hairy, eglandular abaxially. |
blades usually pale green or glaucous abaxially, green adaxially, elliptic, 20–80 × 9–32 mm, ± membranous, margins usually entire, inrolled on more-coriaceous blades, surfaces glabrous or densely hairy, rarely glandular. |
Inflorescences | 2–7-flowered, sometimes flowers solitary. |
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Pedicels | subtended by leaflike bract (ca. as long as flower). |
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Flowers | calyx green, glandular-hairy; corolla white, cylindric, 5–9 mm, (glandular-hairy); filaments hairy. |
corolla lobes spreading at anthesis, white to greenish white, sometimes purple veined, 4–8 mm; filaments glabrous or hairy. |
Berries | black, 7–9 mm diam., hairy. |
green, yellow-green, yellow, purple, or black, often lightly glaucous, 7–18 mm diam., sometimes hairy and sparsely glandular. |
Seeds | 3–9, ca. 1 mm. |
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2n | = 48. |
= 24. |
Vaccinium hirsutum |
Vaccinium stamineum |
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Phenology | Flowering summer. | Flowering spring(-early summer). |
Habitat | Dry oak-pine ridges and mountain meadows | Sandy, well-drained soil, xeric communities such as dry oak woods, pine barrens, savannas, dry pine ridges, sparsely wooded bluffs, sand hills, thickets, clearings (usually on acidic substrates, sometimes on limestone) |
Elevation | 600-1500 m (2000-4900 ft) | 0-1700 m (0-5600 ft) |
Distribution |
GA; NC; TN
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AL; AR; CT; DC; DE; FL; GA; IL; IN; KS; KY; LA; MA; MD; MO; MS; NC; NJ; NY; OH; OK; PA; RI; SC; TN; TX; VA; WV; ON; Mexico (Hidalgo, Nuevo León, Oaxaca, San Luis Potosí)
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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 stamineum has been subject to an inordinate amount of splitting, especially by E. L. Greene and W. W. Ashe (see S. P. Vander Kloet 1988). (Discussion copyrighted by Flora of North America; reprinted with permission.) |
Source | FNA vol. 8, p. 529. | FNA vol. 8, p. 521. |
Parent taxa | Ericaceae > subfam. Vaccinioideae > Vaccinium > sect. Cyanococcus | Ericaceae > subfam. Vaccinioideae > Vaccinium > sect. Polycodium |
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Synonyms | Cyanococcus hirsutus | Polycodium ashei, Polycodium candicans, Polycodium depressum, Polycodium floridanum, Polycodium leptosepalum, Polycodium macilentum, Polycodium melanocarpum, Polycodium neglectum, Polycodium stamineum, V. caesium, V. melanocarpum, V. neglectum, V. stamineum var. affine, V. stamineum var. austromontanum, V. stamineum var. interius, V. stamineum var. melanocarpum, V. stamineum var. neglectum, V. stamineum var. virginianum |
Name authority | Buckley: Amer. J. Sci. Arts 45: 175. 1843 , | Linnaeus: Sp. Pl. 1: 350. 1753 , |
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