NameThatPlant.net: Vaccinium tenellum

Spermatophytes (seed plants): Angiosperms (flowering plants): Eudicots: Core Eudicots: Asterids: Ericales
Section: Cyanococcus

WEAKLEY'S FLORA OF THE SOUTHEASTERN US (4/14/23):
Vaccinium tenellum FAMILY Ericaceae Go to FSUS key

Dig deeper at SERNEC, a consortium of southeastern herbaria.

Read more about Small Black Blueberry at Vascular Plants of North Carolina.

SYNONYMOUS WITH PLANTS NATIONAL DATABASE:
Vaccinium tenellum FAMILY Ericaceae

SYNONYMOUS WITH VASCULAR FLORA OF THE CAROLINAS (Radford, Ahles, & Bell, 1968) 145-19-004:

Vaccinium tenellum FAMILY Ericaceae

COMMON NAME:
Southern Dwarf Blueberry, Small Cluster Blueberry, Small Cluster Blueberry, Narrowleaf Blueberry

WEAKLEY'S FLORA OF THE SOUTHEASTERN US (4/14/23):
Vaccinium tenellum FAMILY Ericaceae

SYNONYMOUS WITH PLANTS NATIONAL DATABASE:
Vaccinium tenellum FAMILY Ericaceae

SYNONYMOUS WITH VASCULAR FLORA OF THE CAROLINAS (Radford, Ahles, & Bell, 1968) 145-19-004:
Vaccinium tenellum FAMILY Ericaceae

1590

Shrub
Perennial

Habitat: Longleaf pine sandhills, pine flatwoods, Piedmont hardpan woodlands, other xeric woodlands, per Weakley's Flora

Native to the Carolinas & Georgia

Common in Coastal Plain (uncommon in Carolina Piedmont) (rare in GA Piedmont)

CLICK HERE to see a map, notes, and images from Weakley's Flora of the Southeastern US.

LEAVES:
Deciduous to semi-evergreen
Simple
Alternate
Margins minutely toothed

RHIZOMES? STOLONS?
Rhizomatous, forming clonal colonies

FLOWER:
Spring
PInk/Whitish
5-lobed calyx
5-lobed cylindric corolla
10 stamens
Inferior ovary
Bisexual

FRUIT:
Summer
Black
Berry

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