Vaccinium hirsutum |
Vaccinium tenellum |
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hairy blueberry, small cluster blueberry, woolly berry, wooly berry |
small black blueberry, southern blueberry |
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Habit | Plants forming open colonies, 2–5(–7.5) dm; twigs green, slightly angled, pilose or hairy. | Plants forming extensive, open colonies, 1–7.5 dm; twigs yellowish green, ± terete, hairy. |
Leaves | deciduous; blade green, elliptic, 23–62 × 10–36 mm, subcoriaceous, margins entire, surfaces densely hairy, eglandular abaxially. |
deciduous, rarely persistent; blade green, spatulate to elliptic, 13–40 × 3–17 mm, subcoriaceous, margins sharply to obscurely serrate, surfaces glandular abaxially, hairy especially when young, rarely glabrous. |
Flowers | calyx green, glandular-hairy; corolla white, cylindric, 5–9 mm, (glandular-hairy); filaments hairy. |
calyx pale green, sometimes hairy; corolla usually white tinged with pink, cylindric, 5–9 mm; filaments ± hairy. |
Berries | black, 7–9 mm diam., hairy. |
black, 6–8 mm diam., sometimes puberulent. |
Seeds | 3–9, ca. 1 mm. |
5–25, ca. 1 mm. |
2n | = 48. |
= 24. |
Vaccinium hirsutum |
Vaccinium tenellum |
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Phenology | Flowering summer. | Flowering winter–spring. |
Habitat | Dry oak-pine ridges and mountain meadows | Dry sand hills, pine barrens, scrubby oak woods, open pine parkland, and flatwoods subject to burning |
Elevation | 600-1500 m (2000-4900 ft) | 0-200 m (0-700 ft) |
Distribution |
GA; NC; TN
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AL; FL; GA; MS; NC; SC; VA
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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. 528. |
Parent taxa | Ericaceae > subfam. Vaccinioideae > Vaccinium > sect. Cyanococcus | Ericaceae > subfam. Vaccinioideae > Vaccinium > sect. Cyanococcus |
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Synonyms | Cyanococcus hirsutus | Cyanococcus tenellus |
Name authority | Buckley: Amer. J. Sci. Arts 45: 175. 1843 , | Aiton: Hort. Kew. 2: 12. 1789 , |
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