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Vaccinium hirsutum
Also called Woollyberry, Low-lowbush Blueberry, Woolly Berry, Hairy Huckleberry, Small Cluster Blueberry, Wooly Berry
Hairy blueberry is a North American shrub up to about 75 cm tall that forms large colonies in dry oak-pine ridges of the southern Appalachians. It is grown mainly for its hairy blue-black berries and suits well-drained, acidic soil.
Vaccinium hirsutum is a North American 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.
Lowbush blueberry · Farkleberry · Northern blueberry · Sea bilberry · New Jersey blueberry · Dwarf bilberry · Highbush blueberry · Creeping blueberry · Azorean Bilberry · Darrow's blueberry · Elliott's blueberry · Southern mountain cranberry
Text excerpted from the Wikipedia article Vaccinium hirsutum by its contributors, under CC BY-SA 4.0; the excerpts and the care summary drawn from them are shared under the same licence.
The care summary was written by AI (Claude, Anthropic) from the sources on this page, with general growing knowledge where they are silent. Check before relying on it.
Life form, climate and native range: World Checklist of Vascular Plants, Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (CC BY 3.0), reformatted; see Plants of the World Online.
