Vaccinium tenellum |
Vaccinium crassifolium |
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small black blueberry, southern blueberry |
creeping blueberry |
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Habit | Plants forming extensive, open colonies, 1–7.5 dm; twigs yellowish green, ± terete, hairy. | Plants extensively mat-forming (often by layering), with erect branches from lateral buds, rooting and/or swelling into woody burls at nodes; twigs of current year reddish green, terete, finely hairy, not verrucose. |
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. |
blades dark green, elliptic to obovate, (10–)12–15(–39) × (4–)5–7(–24) mm, coriaceous, margins ± entire, surfaces glabrescent. |
Pedicels | 0.1–0.3 cm. |
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Flowers | calyx pale green, sometimes hairy; corolla usually white tinged with pink, cylindric, 5–9 mm; filaments ± hairy. |
calyx lobes distinct; corolla usually white, 3–5 mm; filaments ciliate. |
Berries | black, 6–8 mm diam., sometimes puberulent. |
black, 6–8 mm diam., insipid. |
Seeds | 5–25, ca. 1 mm. |
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2n | = 24. |
= 24. |
Vaccinium tenellum |
Vaccinium crassifolium |
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Phenology | Flowering winter–spring. | Flowering late spring. |
Habitat | Dry sand hills, pine barrens, scrubby oak woods, open pine parkland, and flatwoods subject to burning | Coastal plain, open pine flatwoods, pine barrens, pocosin ecotones and associated disturbed areas, road cuts, fire trails, mown roadsides |
Elevation | 0-200 m (0-700 ft) | 0-200 m (0-700 ft) |
Distribution |
AL; FL; GA; MS; NC; SC; VA
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GA; NC; SC; VA
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Source | FNA vol. 8, p. 528. | FNA vol. 8, p. 525. |
Parent taxa | Ericaceae > subfam. Vaccinioideae > Vaccinium > sect. Cyanococcus | Ericaceae > subfam. Vaccinioideae > Vaccinium > sect. Herpothamnus |
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Synonyms | Cyanococcus tenellus | Herpothamnus crassifolius, V. crassifolium subsp. sempervirens, V. sempervirens |
Name authority | Aiton: Hort. Kew. 2: 12. 1789 , | Andrews: Bot. Repos. 2: plate 105. (1800) |
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