Vaccinium virgatum
Credits
Article from Bean's Trees and Shrubs Hardy in the British Isles
Recommended citation
'Vaccinium virgatum' from the website Trees and Shrubs Online (treesandshrubsonline.
Genus
Other taxa in genus
- Vaccinium angustifolium
- Vaccinium arboreum
- Vaccinium arctostaphylos
- Vaccinium bracteatum
- Vaccinium caespitosum
- Vaccinium canadense
- Vaccinium corymbosum
- Vaccinium crassifolium
- Vaccinium delavayi
- Vaccinium duclouxii
- Vaccinium dunalianum
- Vaccinium erythrocarpum
- Vaccinium floribundum
- Vaccinium fragile
- Vaccinium glauco-album
- Vaccinium hirsutum
- Vaccinium × intermedium
- Vaccinium japonicum
- Vaccinium macrocarpum
- Vaccinium membranaceum
- Vaccinium moupinense
- Vaccinium myrsinites
- Vaccinium myrtillus
- Vaccinium nummularia
- Vaccinium oldhamii
- Vaccinium ovalifolium
- Vaccinium ovatum
- Vaccinium oxycoccus
- Vaccinium padifolium
- Vaccinium parvifolium
- Vaccinium praestans
- Vaccinium stamineum
- Vaccinium uliginosum
- Vaccinium urceolatum
- Vaccinium vacillans
- Vaccinium vitis-idaea
A deciduous shrub of erect habit, 4 to 10 ft high; young shoots minutely downy. Leaves ovate-lanceolate to oval-oblong, 1 to 3 in. long, 1 to 11⁄2 in. wide, tapered to both ends, finely toothed or entire, bright green and glabrous above, pale or glaucous beneath; shortly stalked. Flowers white or pink, in short axillary clusters of six to ten; corolla 1⁄3 in. long, cylindrical but slightly tapered towards the mouth, where are five tiny, reflexed teeth; calyx five-lobed, lobes triangular. Fruits globose, black, 1⁄4 in. wide, sometimes slightly covered with bloom. Bot. Mag., t. 3522.
Native of eastern N. America from Southern Virginia southwards, often in swamps. Much confused in gardens with V. corymbosum which has a more urceolate, less cylindrical corolla. Probably some of the plants called V. virgatum in gardens and valued for their autumn tints are really V. corymbosum.