Hairy blueberry facts for kids
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V. hirsutum
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| Vaccinium hirsutum Buckley 1843
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Cyanococcus hirsutus (Buckley) Small |
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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.
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.
Vaccinium hirsutum produces white, cylindrical flowers in late spring, followed by hairy, black berries in the summer.
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