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Vaccinium fuscatum; photograph Alex Abair, CC BY 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons CC BYAlex Abair, CC BY 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons

Vaccinium fuscatum Aiton

Ericaceae · Oklahoma, Connecticut +21

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Summary

Vaccinium fuscatum, the black highbush blueberry or hairy highbush blueberry, is a species of flowering plant in the heath family (Ericaceae). It is native to North America, where it is found in Ontario, Canada and the eastern United States. Its typical natural habitat is wet areas such as bogs, pocosins, and swamps.

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About the genus · Vaccinium

Vaccinium is a common and widespread genus of shrubs or dwarf shrubs in the heath family (Ericaceae). The fruits of many species are eaten by humans and some are of commercial importance, including the cranberry, blueberry, bilberry (whortleberry), lingonberry (cowberry), and huckleberry. Like many other heath plants, they are restricted to acidic soils.

Quoted from Wikipedia, "Vaccinium", CC BY-SA 4.0.

Cultivation

Not checked: GBIF's records were not asked (why, under the name), and the habitat climate is read only from them, so no sheet is derived.

Climate across the habitat

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Natural habitat

Native range as published by WCVP.
Records not checked: GBIF's records were not asked, as said under the name.
NativeOklahoma, Connecticut, Massachusetts, New Hampshire, New Jersey, New York, Pennsylvania, Rhode I., Texas, Alabama, Arkansas, Delaware, Florida, Georgia, Kentucky, Louisiana, Maryland, Mississippi, North Carolina, South Carolina, Tennessee, Virginia, District of Columbia · regions are the level-3 units of the World Geographical Scheme for Recording Plant Distributions, as Kew's World Checklist records ranges, some under historical names such as Yugoslavia or Czechoslovakia (how).
Kew's description“shrub” · “temperate” · quoted from WCVP, RBG Kew (CC BY 4.0); not derived here
Evidence usedGBIF's records not checked, as said under the name: so there are no points on the map, no map marker and no climate across the range; the range is Kew's. Not a statement that no record exists.

Photographs

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Photographs: Alex Abair, CC BY 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons (6).

Similar habitat climate Not checked: GBIF's records were not asked (why, under the name), and the nearest habitat climates are read from the climate they give.

Other Vaccinium 68 in the reference

Vaccinium acrobracteatum Ericaceae Vaccinium angustifolium Vaccinium angustifolium Lowbush blueberry Photo: CC0, author not statedVaccinium arboreum Vaccinium arboreum Sparkleberry Photo: CC0, author not statedVaccinium arctostaphylos Vaccinium arctostaphylos Caucasian whortleberry Photo: CC BY, Анна Vaccinium ashei Ericaceae Vaccinium auriculifolium Ericaceae Vaccinium bancanum Ericaceae Vaccinium bracteatum Vaccinium bracteatum Sea bilberry Photo: CC BY, Jacy ChenVaccinium cespitosum Vaccinium cespitosum Dwarf bilberry Photo: CC0, author not stated Vaccinium clementis Ericaceae Vaccinium corymbosum Vaccinium corymbosum Highbush blueberry Photo: CC BY, Tom Scavo Vaccinium cumingianum Ericaceae all 69 ›

Names & registers

Also known as Vaccinium atrococcum f. leucococcum; Vaccinium corymbosum f. caesariense; Vaccinium cuthbertii; Vaccinium atrococcum var. longianum; Vaccinium atrococcum and 11 more. (WCVP, RBG Kew)

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The record

Family
Ericaceae
Described by
Aiton
Native to
Oklahoma, Connecticut, Massachusetts +20
Records
not checked · GBIF's records were not asked: the page has no GBIF key

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Where this page came from built 2026-10-22
Kew's names (WCVP) kew.names answeredas of 2026-06-04Kew's entry Vaccinium fuscatum Aiton (plant_name_id 2458913), read from Kew's names file
GBIF species record gbif.species not askedGBIF's backbone holds no one accepted species of this name, and a name it holds only as another species' synonym is not taken for this one, so GBIF's records were not asked
GBIF synonyms gbif.synonyms not askedGBIF's backbone holds no one accepted species of this name, and a name it holds only as another species' synonym is not taken for this one, so GBIF's records were not asked
GBIF common names gbif.vernacular not askedGBIF's backbone holds no one accepted species of this name, and a name it holds only as another species' synonym is not taken for this one, so GBIF's records were not asked
GBIF occurrence records gbif.occurrences not askedGBIF's backbone holds no one accepted species of this name, and a name it holds only as another species' synonym is not taken for this one, so GBIF's records were not asked
WCVP native range wcvp.distribution answeredas of 2026-06-04
Habitat climate climate not askedGBIF's backbone holds no one accepted species of this name, and a name it holds only as another species' synonym is not taken for this one, so GBIF's records were not asked, and the habitat climate is read only from them
Wikidata wikidata answeredasked 2026-10-22found by Kew's IPNI identifier 858940-1, POWO 858940-1
Wikipedia wikipedia answeredasked 2026-10-22
iNaturalist photographs, wild inat.photos.wild not asked
iNaturalist photographs, cultivated inat.photos.cultivated not asked
GBIF media gbif.media not askedGBIF's backbone holds no one accepted species of this name, and a name it holds only as another species' synonym is not taken for this one, so GBIF's records were not asked
Wikimedia Commons commons answeredasked 2026-10-22
OpenAlex papers openalex not askednot yet asked for this reference; a later fill takes the papers from OpenAlex's snapshot

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