Vaccinium tenellum |
Vaccinium myrtilloides |
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small black blueberry, southern blueberry |
bleuet fausse-myrtille, sour-top blueberry, sourtop, velvet-leaf blueberry, velvetleaf huckleberry |
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Habit | Plants forming extensive, open colonies, 1–7.5 dm; twigs yellowish green, ± terete, hairy. | Plants forming ± open colonies, 1–11.5 dm; twigs greenish brown, terete, pilose 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 green, elliptic, 23–35 × 8–16 mm, membranous to subcoriaceous, margins entire, surfaces ± densely hairy (sometimes mostly on veins), eglandular, sometimes glabrescent. |
Flowers | calyx pale green, sometimes hairy; corolla usually white tinged with pink, cylindric, 5–9 mm; filaments ± hairy. |
calyx green, glabrous, (eglandular); corolla greenish white to pink, urceolate, 3–5 mm, (eglandular); filaments usually hairy. |
Berries | black, 6–8 mm diam., sometimes puberulent. |
blue, glaucous, 6–8 mm diam., glabrous. |
Seeds | 5–25, ca. 1 mm. |
10–40, ca. 1 mm. |
2n | = 24. |
= 24. |
Vaccinium tenellum |
Vaccinium myrtilloides |
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Phenology | Flowering winter–spring. | Flowering late spring–early summer. |
Habitat | Dry sand hills, pine barrens, scrubby oak woods, open pine parkland, and flatwoods subject to burning | Open or disturbed sites in boreal forest, muskegs, bogs, barrens, headlands, outcrops, mountain meadows |
Elevation | 0-200 m (0-700 ft) | 0-1700 m (0-5600 ft) |
Distribution |
AL; FL; GA; MS; NC; SC; VA
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CT; IA; IL; IN; MA; ME; MN; MT; NH; NY; OH; PA; VT; WI; WV; AB; BC; LB; MB; NB; NS; NT; ON; PE; QC; SK
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Source | FNA vol. 8, p. 528. | FNA vol. 8, p. 529. |
Parent taxa | Ericaceae > subfam. Vaccinioideae > Vaccinium > sect. Cyanococcus | Ericaceae > subfam. Vaccinioideae > Vaccinium > sect. Cyanococcus |
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Synonyms | Cyanococcus tenellus | Cyanococcus canadensis, V. angustifolium var. myrtilloides, V. canadense |
Name authority | Aiton: Hort. Kew. 2: 12. 1789 , | Michaux: Fl. Bor.-Amer. 1: 234. 1803 , |
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