Flora of North America species comparison

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Vaccinium tenellum

Vaccinium darrowii

small black blueberry, southern blueberry

Darrow's blueberry, Darrow's evergreen blueberry, southern highbush blueberry
Habit Plants forming extensive, open colonies, 1–7.5 dm; twigs yellowish green, ± terete, hairy. Plants forming extensive open colonies, 1–15 dm; twigs pale green, glaucous, ± terete, puberulent.
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.

persistent for 1+ years;

blade usually pale green abaxially, dark green adaxially, elliptic, 7–11 × 3–5 mm, coriaceous, margins entire, (often inrolled), surfaces usually glabrous abaxially (rarely minutely hairy along midvein).
Flowers

calyx pale green, sometimes hairy;

corolla usually white tinged with pink, cylindric, 5–9 mm;

filaments ± hairy.

calyx greenish, glabrous;

corolla white tinged with pink or red, ± urceolate, 4–6 mm;

filaments ciliate.
Berries

black, 6–8 mm diam., sometimes puberulent.

blue, glaucous, 8–10 mm diam., glabrous.
Seeds

5–25, ca. 1 mm.

10–20, ca. 1 mm.
2n

= 24.

= 24.

Vaccinium tenellum

Vaccinium darrowii
Phenology Flowering winter–spring. Flowering winter–spring.
Habitat Dry sand hills, pine barrens, scrubby oak woods, open pine parkland, and flatwoods subject to burning Low flatwoods, scrubby flatwoods, oak-scrub, palmetto scrubs and swales
Elevation 0-200 m (0-700 ft) 0-30 m (0-100 ft)
Distribution
from FNA
AL; FL; GA; MS; NC; SC; VA
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from FNA
AL; FL; GA; LA; MS
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Source FNA vol. 8, p. 528. FNA vol. 8, p. 527.
Parent taxa Ericaceae > subfam. Vaccinioideae > Vaccinium > sect. Cyanococcus Ericaceae > subfam. Vaccinioideae > Vaccinium > sect. Cyanococcus
Sibling taxa
V. angustifolium, V. arboreum, V. boreale, V. cespitosum, V. corymbosum, V. crassifolium, V. darrowii, V. deliciosum, V. erythrocarpum, V. hirsutum, V. macrocarpon, V. membranaceum, V. myrsinites, V. myrtilloides, V. myrtillus, V. ovalifolium, V. ovatum, V. oxycoccos, V. pallidum, V. parvifolium, V. scoparium, V. stamineum, V. uliginosum, V. vitis-idaea
V. angustifolium, V. arboreum, V. boreale, V. cespitosum, V. corymbosum, V. crassifolium, V. deliciosum, V. erythrocarpum, V. hirsutum, V. macrocarpon, V. membranaceum, V. myrsinites, V. myrtilloides, V. myrtillus, V. ovalifolium, V. ovatum, V. oxycoccos, V. pallidum, V. parvifolium, V. scoparium, V. stamineum, V. tenellum, V. uliginosum, V. vitis-idaea
Synonyms Cyanococcus tenellus V. myrsinites var. glaucum
Name authority Aiton: Hort. Kew. 2: 12. 1789 , Camp: Bull. Torrey Bot. Club 69: 240. 1942 (as darrowi) ,
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