Taxon:
Vaccinium fuscatum Aiton
Summary
Place of publication:
Hort. kew. 2:11. 1789
Verified:
06/10/1992
ARS Systematic Botanists.
Autonyms (not in current use), synonyms and invalid designations
Reference(s)
- Camp, W. H. 1945. The North American blueberries with some notes on other groups of Vacciniaceae. Brittonia 5:203-275. Note: as a probable tetraploid, and including in synonymy Vaccinium formosum
- Clark, R. C. 1971. The woody plants of Alabama. Ann. Missouri Bot. Gard. 58:225. Note: = V. atrococcum (A. Gray) Porter
- FNA Editorial Committee. Flora of North America. 1993- Note: = V. corymbosum L.
- Hancock, J. F. et al. 2008. Blueberries and cranberries. Temperate fruit crop breeding: germplasm to genomics. 2008 4:115-149.
- Huxley, A., ed. The new Royal Horticultural Society dictionary of gardening. 1992 Note: = V. atrococcum (A. Gray) A. Heller
- Kartesz, J. T. A synonymized checklist of the vascular flora of the United States, Canada, and Greenland. 1994
- Krüssmann, G. Manual of cultivated broad-leaved trees and shrubs (English translation of Handbuch der Laubgehölze. 1976). 1984 Note: = V. atrococcum (A. Gray) A. Heller
- Kunkel, G. Plants for human consumption. 1984 Note: = V. atrococcum (A. Gray) A. Heller
- Porcher, M. H. et al. Searchable World Wide Web Multilingual Multiscript Plant Name Database (MMPND) (on-line resource). http://www.plantnames.unimelb.edu.au/Sorting/Frontpage.html
- Radford, A. E. et al. Manual of the vascular flora of the Carolinas. 1964 Note: = V. atrococcum (A. Gray) A. Heller
- Smith, E. B. An atlas and annotated list of the vascular plants of Arkansas. 1978
- Song, G.-Q. & J. F. Hancock. 2011. Chapter 10. Vaccinium. Wild crop relatives: genomic and breeding resources, temperate fruits. 2011 197-221.
- Uttal, L. J. 1987. The genus Vaccinium L. (Ericaceae) in Virginia. Castanea 52:245.
- Vander Kloet, S. P. 1980. The taxonomy of the highbush blueberry, Vaccinium corymbosum. Canad. J. Bot. 58:1195. Note: = V. corymbosum L.
- Vander Kloet, S. P. 1996. Vaccinium. In: J. L. Luteyn et al., Ericaceae of the southeastern United States. Castanea 61:140. Note: = V. corymbosum L.
- Vander Kloet, S. P. The genus Vaccinium in North America. 1988 Note: = V. corymbosum L.
- Weakley, A. S. Flora of the southern and middle Atlantic states. 2011 http://www.herbarium.unc.edu/flora.htm
Common names
English
black highbush blueberry – downy swamp-huckleberry – hairy highbush blueberry –
Distribution
order_code | Status | Continent | Subcontinent | Country | State | Note |
1 | Native | Northern America | Eastern Canada | Canada | Ontario | s.e. |
1 | Native | Northern America | Eastern Canada | Canada | Quebec | s.w. |
1 | Native | Northern America | North-Central U.S.A. | United States | Oklahoma | http://www.biosurvey.ou.edu/shrub/vacc-fus.htm |
1 | Native | Northern America | Northeastern U.S.A. | United States | Connecticut | |
1 | Native | Northern America | Northeastern U.S.A. | United States | Indiana | |
1 | Native | Northern America | Northeastern U.S.A. | United States | Maine | |
1 | Native | Northern America | Northeastern U.S.A. | United States | Massachusetts | |
1 | Native | Northern America | Northeastern U.S.A. | United States | New Hampshire | |
1 | Native | Northern America | Northeastern U.S.A. | United States | New Jersey | |
1 | Native | Northern America | Northeastern U.S.A. | United States | New York | |
1 | Native | Northern America | Northeastern U.S.A. | United States | Ohio | |
1 | Native | Northern America | Northeastern U.S.A. | United States | Pennsylvania | |
1 | Native | Northern America | Northeastern U.S.A. | United States | Rhode Island | |
1 | Native | Northern America | Northeastern U.S.A. | United States | Vermont | |
1 | Native | Northern America | Northeastern U.S.A. | United States | West Virginia | |
1 | Native | Northern America | South-Central U.S.A. | United States | Texas | |
1 | Native | Northern America | Southeastern U.S.A. | United States | Alabama | |
1 | Native | Northern America | Southeastern U.S.A. | United States | Arkansas | |
1 | Native | Northern America | Southeastern U.S.A. | United States | Delaware | |
1 | Native | Northern America | Southeastern U.S.A. | United States | Florida | n. |
1 | Native | Northern America | Southeastern U.S.A. | United States | Georgia | |
1 | Native | Northern America | Southeastern U.S.A. | United States | Kentucky | |
1 | Native | Northern America | Southeastern U.S.A. | United States | Maryland | |
1 | Native | Northern America | Southeastern U.S.A. | United States | North Carolina | |
1 | Native | Northern America | Southeastern U.S.A. | United States | South Carolina | |
1 | Native | Northern America | Southeastern U.S.A. | United States | Tennessee | http://tenn.bio.utk.edu/vascular/database/vascular-database.asp?CategoryID=Dicots&FamilyID=Ericaceae&GenusID=Vaccinium&SpeciesID=fuscatum |
1 | Native | Northern America | Southeastern U.S.A. | United States | Virginia | |
2 | Cultivated | | | | | also cult. |
Native
Northern America
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EASTERN CANADA:
Canada [Quebec (s.w.), Ontario (s.e.)]
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NORTH-CENTRAL U.S.A.:
United States [Oklahoma (http://www.biosurvey.ou.edu/shrub/vacc-fus.htm)]
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NORTHEASTERN U.S.A.:
United States [Connecticut, Indiana, Maine, Massachusetts, New Hampshire, New Jersey, New York, Ohio, Pennsylvania, Rhode Island, Vermont, West Virginia]
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SOUTH-CENTRAL U.S.A.:
United States [Texas]
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SOUTHEASTERN U.S.A.:
United States [Alabama, Arkansas, Delaware, Florida (n.), Georgia, Kentucky, Maryland, North Carolina, South Carolina, Tennessee (http://tenn.bio.utk.edu/vascular/database/vascular-database.asp?CategoryID=Dicots&FamilyID=Ericaceae&GenusID=Vaccinium&SpeciesID=fuscatum), Virginia]
Cultivated
(also cult.)
Economic Uses
Environmental
Human food
fruit (fide L Edible Pl; Krussmann) –