Vaccinium hirsutum
Vaccinium hirsutum | |
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Vulnerable (NatureServe) | |
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(unranked): | Angiosperms
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Species: | V. hirsutum
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Vaccinium hirsutum Buckley 1843
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Synonyms[1] | |
Cyanococcus hirsutus (Buckley) Small |
Vaccinium hirsutum is a species of flowering plant in the heath family known by the common name hairy blueberry. This species is endemic to a small area in the southern Appalachian mountains, where it is only known from a few counties in eastern Tennessee, northern Georgia, and the Carolinas.[2]
Vaccinium hirsutum is native to dry oak-pine ridges, where it can be locally abundant. It is a shrub up to 75 cm (28 inches) tall, forming large colonies. Leaves are rather thick, elliptical, densely hairy, up to 62 mm (2 1/2 inches) long.[3]
Vaccinium hirsutum produces white, cylindrical flowers in late spring, followed by hairy, black berries in the summer.[3]
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Categories:
- NatureServe vulnerable species
- Vaccinium
- Flora of the Southeastern United States
- Plants described in 1843
- Blueberries
- Ericaceae stubs