Vaccinium tenellum |
Vaccinium angustifolium |
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small black blueberry, southern blueberry |
bleuet à feuilles étroites, common lowbush blueberry, early low-bush blueberry, lowbush blueberry, sweet lowbush blueberry |
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Habit | Plants forming extensive, open colonies, 1–7.5 dm; twigs yellowish green, ± terete, hairy. | Plants forming dense, extensive colonies, 1–3 dm; twigs of current season green to glaucous, ± angled, glabrous or 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. |
deciduous; blade dark to pale green or glaucous, elliptic to narrowly elliptic, 15–41 × (5–)6–16(–20) mm, margins usually sharply, uniformly serrate (serrations sometimes minute, tipped with stipitate gland), surfaces glabrous or hairy, especially along abaxial midvein, eglandular abaxially. |
Flowers | calyx pale green, sometimes hairy; corolla usually white tinged with pink, cylindric, 5–9 mm; filaments ± hairy. |
calyx green, glaucous, glabrous; corolla usually white, cylindric to urceolate, 4–6 mm; filaments ciliate; (tubules with introrse, elongate pores). |
Berries | black, 6–8 mm diam., sometimes puberulent. |
black or blue, rarely white, 3–12 mm diam., glabrous. |
Seeds | 5–25, ca. 1 mm. |
(3–)10–15(–20), ca. 1.2 mm. |
2n | = 24. |
= 48. |
Vaccinium tenellum |
Vaccinium angustifolium |
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Phenology | Flowering winter–spring. | Flowering spring–early summer. |
Habitat | Dry sand hills, pine barrens, scrubby oak woods, open pine parkland, and flatwoods subject to burning | Headlands, high moors, dry, sandy areas, peaty barrens, rocky outcroppings, pine barrens, oak parklands, regeneration forests, abandoned pastures and bogs |
Elevation | 0-200 m (0-700 ft) | 0-1900 m (0-6200 ft) |
Distribution |
AL; FL; GA; MS; NC; SC; VA
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CT; DE; IA; IL; IN; MA; MD; ME; MI; MN; NC; NH; NJ; NY; OH; PA; RI; TN; VA; VT; WI; WV; MB; NB; NL; NS; ON; PE; QC; SPM
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Discussion | Vaccinium angustifolium is extensively harvested from cultivated and wild plants in New England (especially Maine) and in Quebec and the Canadian Maritime Provinces. (Discussion copyrighted by Flora of North America; reprinted with permission.) |
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Source | FNA vol. 8, p. 528. | 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 tenellus | V. angustifolium var. hypolasium, V. angustifolium var. laevifolium, V. angustifolium var. nigrum, V. brittonii, V. lamarckii, V. nigrum, V. pensylvanicum var. nigrum |
Name authority | Aiton: Hort. Kew. 2: 12. 1789 , | Aiton: Hort. Kew. 2: 11. 1789 , |
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