Vaccinium angustifolium
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Photo courtesy NPS |
Britton & Brown |
| Botanical name: | Vaccinium angustifolium |
| Common name: | late low bush blueberry |
| Group: | dicot |
| Family: | Ericaceae |
| Growth type: | shrub |
| Duration: | perennial |
| Origin: | native |
| Plant height: | 6" to 2' |
| Foliage: | alternate leaves, simple, finely toothed, lanceolate shape;��green on both sides, glands on the underside, reddish bronze in autumn |
| Flower: | 1/4" long white, sometimes tinged with pale pink, solitary or in small clusters |
| Flowering time: | March to May, with sweet edible bluish black fruit in mid- to late- summer |
| Habitat: | dry open acidic soils |
| Range in New Jersey: | statewide |
| Heritage ranking, if any: | n/a |
| Distribution: |  |