Vaccinium hirsutum

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Vaccinium hirsutum is a North American species of flowering plant in the heath family known by the common name hairy blueberry.

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Vaccinium hirsutum
Vulnerable
Vulnerable (NatureServe)
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Kingdom: Plantae
Clade: Embryophytes
Clade: Tracheophytes
Clade: Angiosperms
Clade: Eudicots
Clade: Asterids
Order: Ericales
Family: Ericaceae
Genus: Vaccinium
Section: Vaccinium sect. Cyanococcus
Species:
V. hirsutum
Binomial name
Vaccinium hirsutum
Buckley 1843
Synonyms[1]

Cyanococcus hirsutus (Buckley) Small

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Description

The species forms a shrub up to 75 centimetres (30 inches) tall, forming large colonies. The leaves are thick, elliptical, densely hairy, and up to 6.2 cm (2+12 in) long.[2]

White, cylindrical flowers appear in late spring, followed by hairy, black berries in the summer.[2]

Distribution and habitat

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.[3]

It is native to dry oak-pine ridges, where it can be locally abundant.[2]

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