Vaccinium ovatum |
Vaccinium hirsutum |
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California huckleberry, evergreen huckelberry, evergreen huckleberry, winter huckleberry |
hairy blueberry, small cluster blueberry, woolly berry, wooly berry |
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Habit | Plants clump- or crown-forming; twigs ± terete, pilose. | Plants forming open colonies, 2–5(–7.5) dm; twigs green, slightly angled, pilose or hairy. |
Leaves | blades pale green abaxially, lustrous dark green adaxially, narrowly ovate, 21–29 × 8–12 mm, coriaceous, margins sharply serrate, surfaces glandular abaxially. |
deciduous; blade green, elliptic, 23–62 × 10–36 mm, subcoriaceous, margins entire, surfaces densely hairy, eglandular abaxially. |
Flowers | corolla pinkish, 3–5 mm; filaments hairy. |
calyx green, glandular-hairy; corolla white, cylindric, 5–9 mm, (glandular-hairy); filaments hairy. |
Berries | black or blue, 6–8 mm diam. 2n = 24. |
black, 7–9 mm diam., hairy. |
Seeds | 3–9, ca. 1 mm. |
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2n | = 48. |
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Vaccinium ovatum |
Vaccinium hirsutum |
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Phenology | Flowering early spring-mid summer. | Flowering summer. |
Habitat | Edges of coniferous forests, also epiphytic on trunks of redwoods | Dry oak-pine ridges and mountain meadows |
Elevation | 0-30 m (0-100 ft) | 600-1500 m (2000-4900 ft) |
Distribution |
CA; OR; WA; BC
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GA; NC; TN
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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. 530. | FNA vol. 8, p. 529. |
Parent taxa | Ericaceae > subfam. Vaccinioideae > Vaccinium > sect. Pyxothamnus | Ericaceae > subfam. Vaccinioideae > Vaccinium > sect. Cyanococcus |
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Synonyms | V. ovatum var. saporosum | Cyanococcus hirsutus |
Name authority | Pursh: Fl. Amer. Sept. 1: 290. 1813 , | Buckley: Amer. J. Sci. Arts 45: 175. 1843 , |
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