Vaccinium tenellum |
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small black blueberry, southern blueberry |
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Habit | Plants forming extensive, open colonies, 1–7.5 dm; twigs yellowish green, ± terete, hairy. |
Leaves | 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 pale green, sometimes hairy; corolla usually white tinged with pink, cylindric, 5–9 mm; filaments ± hairy. |
Berries | black, 6–8 mm diam., sometimes puberulent. |
Seeds | 5–25, ca. 1 mm. |
2n | = 24. |
Vaccinium tenellum |
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Phenology | Flowering winter–spring. |
Habitat | Dry sand hills, pine barrens, scrubby oak woods, open pine parkland, and flatwoods subject to burning |
Elevation | 0-200 m (0-700 ft) |
Distribution |
AL; FL; GA; MS; NC; SC; VA
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Source | FNA vol. 8, p. 528. |
Parent taxa | Ericaceae > subfam. Vaccinioideae > Vaccinium > sect. Cyanococcus |
Sibling taxa | |
Synonyms | Cyanococcus tenellus |
Name authority | Aiton: Hort. Kew. 2: 12. 1789 , |
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