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Vaccinium tenellum
Also called Southern Dwarf Blueberry, Small Cluster Blueberry, Southern Blueberry
Vaccinium tenellum is a deciduous blueberry relative native to the southeastern United States, forming dense colonies in forests and shrubby areas. It is grown for its small, very dark edible berries and is best suited to acidic, moist, well-drained soil in partial sun.
Vaccinium tenellum, also known as the small black blueberry or southern blueberry, is a North American plant species.
It is native to the southeastern United States from southeastern Mississippi to northern Florida to southern Virginia. It grows in forests and in shrubby areas at elevations up to 200 m (660 ft).
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 tenellum 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.
