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§1 Plant
Vaccinium elliottii Chapm.
vernacular Elliott's blueberry — species · Ericaceae
§2Habit & range
Habit and range
- Growth habit
- Shrub
- Duration
- Perennial
- Group
- Dicot
- Family
- Ericaceae Juss.
- Genus
- Vaccinium
§2a
Native status, by region
- L48 Lower 48 States Native
§2b
County-level range
· 238 counties across 11 states/territories§3Cultivation specs · USDA
Recorded by the USDA Plant Materials Program.
§3a
Tolerances
- Drought
- Low
- Shade
- Medium
- Moisture use
- Medium
- Fire
- High
- Salinity
- Low
- Anaerobic
- None
- CaCO₃
- None
- Hedging
- Low
§3b
Climate & soil
- Cold tolerance
- -3 °F minimum
- Frost-free days
- 190 min.
- Precipitation
- 36–50 in/yr
- pH range
- 4.5–5.6
- Root depth
- 12 in min.
- Fertility need
- Medium
- Soil texture
- coarse, medium
§3c
Form & growth
- Growth form
- Multiple Stem
- Growth rate
- Moderate
- Lifespan
- Moderate
- Mature height
- 10 ft
- Height @ 20 y
- 8 ft
- Foliage texture
- Fine
- Foliage colour
- Green
- Porosity (summer)
- Moderate
- Porosity (winter)
- Porous
- Flower colour
- White
- Fruit colour
- Blue
- Fire resistant
- No
- N fixation
- None
- Toxicity
- None
§3d
Reproduction
- Bloom period
- Early Spring
- Seed abundance
- Medium
- Seed begins
- Spring
- Seed ends
- Spring
- Spread rate
- Slow
- Stratify
- Yes
- Propagation
- seed, cuttings, bare root, container
§3e
Use & availability
- Commercial availability
- Routinely Available
- Nursery stock
- No
- Browse palatability
- High
- Graze palatability
- Low
- Palatable, human
- Yes
- Lumber
- No
- Christmas tree
- No
§4Counties, by state
Recorded in 238 counties across 11 states/territories.
Alabama view state ↗ 59 N ▾
- Autauga 01001
- Baldwin 01003
- Barbour 01005
- Bibb 01007
- Blount 01009
- Bullock 01011
- Butler 01013
- Calhoun 01015
- Chambers 01017
- Cherokee 01019
- Chilton 01021
- Choctaw 01023
- Clarke 01025
- Clay 01027
- Cleburne 01029
- Coffee 01031
- Conecuh 01035
- Coosa 01037
- Covington 01039
- Crenshaw 01041
- Cullman 01043
- Dale 01045
- Dallas 01047
- DeKalb 01049
- Elmore 01051
- Escambia 01053
- Etowah 01055
- Fayette 01057
- Franklin 01059
- Geneva 01061
- Greene 01063
- Hale 01065
- Henry 01067
- Houston 01069
- Jackson 01071
- Jefferson 01073
- Lamar 01075
- Lawrence 01079
- Lee 01081
- Lowndes 01085
- Macon 01087
- Marion 01093
- Marshall 01095
- Mobile 01097
- Monroe 01099
- Perry 01105
- Pickens 01107
- Pike 01109
- Randolph 01111
- Russell 01113
- Shelby 01117
- St. Clair 01115
- Talladega 01121
- Tallapoosa 01123
- Tuscaloosa 01125
- Walker 01127
- Washington 01129
- Wilcox 01131
- Winston 01133
Arkansas view state ↗ 13 N ▾
Florida view state ↗ 1 N ▾
Georgia view state ↗ 7 N ▾
Louisiana view state ↗ 37 N ▾
- Acadia 22001
- Allen 22003
- Avoyelles 22009
- Beauregard 22011
- Bienville 22013
- Bossier 22015
- Caddo 22017
- Calcasieu 22019
- Caldwell 22021
- Catahoula 22025
- Claiborne 22027
- De Soto 22031
- East Baton Rouge 22033
- East Feliciana 22037
- Evangeline 22039
- Franklin 22041
- Grant 22043
- Jackson 22049
- LaSalle 22059
- Lincoln 22061
- Livingston 22063
- Morehouse 22067
- Natchitoches 22069
- Ouachita 22073
- Rapides 22079
- Red River 22081
- Sabine 22085
- St. Helena 22091
- St. Tammany 22103
- Tangipahoa 22105
- Union 22111
- Vernon 22115
- Washington 22117
- Webster 22119
- West Carroll 22123
- West Feliciana 22125
- Winn 22127
Mississippi view state ↗ 48 N ▾
- Amite 28005
- Choctaw 28019
- Claiborne 28021
- Clarke 28023
- Covington 28031
- Forrest 28035
- Franklin 28037
- George 28039
- Greene 28041
- Grenada 28043
- Hancock 28045
- Harrison 28047
- Hinds 28049
- Holmes 28051
- Jackson 28059
- Jasper 28061
- Jefferson Davis 28065
- Jones 28067
- Kemper 28069
- Lamar 28073
- Lauderdale 28075
- Lawrence 28077
- Leake 28079
- Lincoln 28085
- Madison 28089
- Marion 28091
- Monroe 28095
- Montgomery 28097
- Newton 28101
- Noxubee 28103
- Oktibbeha 28105
- Pearl River 28109
- Perry 28111
- Pike 28113
- Rankin 28121
- Scott 28123
- Simpson 28127
- Smith 28129
- Stone 28131
- Tishomingo 28141
- Walthall 28147
- Warren 28149
- Washington 28151
- Wayne 28153
- Webster 28155
- Wilkinson 28157
- Winston 28159
- Yalobusha 28161
North Carolina view state ↗ 26 N ▾
- Anson 37007
- Beaufort 37013
- Bladen 37017
- Brunswick 37019
- Chatham 37037
- Cherokee 37039
- Duplin 37061
- Edgecombe 37065
- Greene 37079
- Halifax 37083
- Harnett 37085
- Hertford 37091
- Jones 37103
- Lee 37105
- Lenoir 37107
- Moore 37125
- Nash 37127
- New Hanover 37129
- Northampton 37131
- Onslow 37133
- Pender 37141
- Pitt 37147
- Sampson 37163
- Union 37179
- Wake 37183
- Wayne 37191
South Carolina view state ↗ 32 N ▾
- Abbeville 45001
- Aiken 45003
- Anderson 45007
- Bamberg 45009
- Barnwell 45011
- Charleston 45019
- Cherokee 45021
- Chester 45023
- Clarendon 45027
- Colleton 45029
- Darlington 45031
- Dillon 45033
- Dorchester 45035
- Edgefield 45037
- Fairfield 45039
- Florence 45041
- Hampton 45049
- Jasper 45053
- Kershaw 45055
- Lancaster 45057
- Laurens 45059
- Lexington 45063
- Marion 45067
- McCormick 45065
- Newberry 45071
- Richland 45079
- Saluda 45081
- Spartanburg 45083
- Sumter 45085
- Union 45087
- Williamsburg 45089
- York 45091
Tennessee view state ↗ 1 N ▾
Texas view state ↗ 8 N ▾
§5Sources & provenance
USDA PLANTS
Symbol, taxonomy, distribution, cultivation specs, native status. Public domain.
plants.usda.gov/VAEL ↗GBIF Backbone
Canonical taxonomic identity, synonym resolution, cross-refs. CC0.
gbif.org/species/2882849 ↗Record version
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