Flora of North America species comparison

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Vaccinium tenellum

Vaccinium ovatum

small black blueberry, southern blueberry

California huckleberry, evergreen huckelberry, evergreen huckleberry, winter huckleberry
Habit Plants forming extensive, open colonies, 1–7.5 dm; twigs yellowish green, ± terete, hairy. Plants clump- or crown-forming; twigs ± terete, pilose.
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 pale green abaxially, lustrous dark green adaxially, narrowly ovate, 21–29 × 8–12 mm, coriaceous, margins sharply serrate, surfaces glandular abaxially.
Flowers

calyx pale green, sometimes hairy;

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

filaments ± hairy.

corolla pinkish, 3–5 mm;

filaments hairy.
Berries

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

black or blue, 6–8 mm diam. 2n = 24.
Seeds

5–25, ca. 1 mm.

2n

= 24.

Vaccinium tenellum

Vaccinium ovatum
Phenology Flowering winter–spring. Flowering early spring-mid summer.
Habitat Dry sand hills, pine barrens, scrubby oak woods, open pine parkland, and flatwoods subject to burning Edges of coniferous forests, also epiphytic on trunks of redwoods
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
CA; OR; WA; BC
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Source FNA vol. 8, p. 528. FNA vol. 8, p. 530.
Parent taxa Ericaceae > subfam. Vaccinioideae > Vaccinium > sect. Cyanococcus Ericaceae > subfam. Vaccinioideae > Vaccinium > sect. Pyxothamnus
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. darrowii, V. deliciosum, V. erythrocarpum, V. hirsutum, V. macrocarpon, V. membranaceum, V. myrsinites, V. myrtilloides, V. myrtillus, V. ovalifolium, V. oxycoccos, V. pallidum, V. parvifolium, V. scoparium, V. stamineum, V. tenellum, V. uliginosum, V. vitis-idaea
Synonyms Cyanococcus tenellus V. ovatum var. saporosum
Name authority Aiton: Hort. Kew. 2: 12. 1789 , Pursh: Fl. Amer. Sept. 1: 290. 1813 ,
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