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Taxon:  Vaccinium fuscatum Aiton



Summary
Genus:
Vaccinium
Section:
Cyanococcus
Family:
Ericaceae
Subfamily:
Vaccinioideae
Tribe:
Vaccinieae
Nomen number:
41017
Place of publication:
Hort. kew. 2:11. 1789
Verified:
06/10/1992 ARS Systematic Botanists.
Accessions:
0 (0  active, 0  available) in National Plant Germplasm System. 
Other conspecific taxa
Autonyms (not in current use), synonyms and invalid designations
Heterotypic Synonym(s)
Vaccinium arkansanum Ashe
Vaccinium atrococcum (A. Gray) A. Heller
Vaccinium corymbosum L. var. atrococcum A. Gray
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Reference(s)
  1. 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
  2. Clark, R. C. 1971. The woody plants of Alabama. Ann. Missouri Bot. Gard. 58:225. Note: = Vaccinium atrococcum (A. Gray) Porter
  3. FNA Editorial Committee. 1993-. Flora of North America. Note: = Vaccinium corymbosum L.
  4. Huxley, A., ed. 1992. The new Royal Horticultural Society dictionary of gardening Note: = Vaccinium atrococcum (A. Gray) A. Heller
  5. Kartesz, J. T. 1994. A synonymized checklist of the vascular flora of the United States, Canada, and Greenland.
  6. Krüssmann, G. 1984. Manual of cultivated broad-leaved trees and shrubs (English translation of Handbuch der Laubgehölze. 1976) Note: = Vaccinium atrococcum (A. Gray) A. Heller
  7. Kunkel, G. 1984. Plants for human consumption Note: = Vaccinium atrococcum (A. Gray) A. Heller
  8. Porcher, M. H. et al. Searchable World Wide Web Multilingual Multiscript Plant Name Database (MMPND) (on-line resource).
  9. Radford, A. E. et al. 1964. Manual of the vascular flora of the Carolinas. Note: = Vaccinium atrococcum (A. Gray) A. Heller
  10. Smith, E. B. 1978. An atlas and annotated list of the vascular plants of Arkansas
  11. Song, G.-Q. & J. F. Hancock. 2011. Chapter 10. Vaccinium. Wild crop relatives: genomic and breeding resources, temperate fruits 197-221.
  12. Uttal, L. J. 1987. The genus Vaccinium L. (Ericaceae) in Virginia. Castanea 52:245.
  13. Vander Kloet, S. P. 1980. The taxonomy of the highbush blueberry, Vaccinium corymbosum. Canad. J. Bot. 58:1195. Note: = Vaccinium corymbosum L.
  14. Vander Kloet, S. P. 1988. The genus Vaccinium in North America Note: = Vaccinium corymbosum L.
  15. Vander Kloet, S. P. 1996. Vaccinium. In: J. L. Luteyn et al., Ericaceae of the southeastern United States. Castanea 61:140. Note: = Vaccinium corymbosum L.
  16. Weakley, A. S. 2011. Flora of the southern and middle Atlantic states.
  17. Wofford, B. E. Database of Tennessee vascular plants (on-line resource).
  18. 2018. Oklahoma vascular plant database
Common names
English
black highbush blueberry –
downy swamp-huckleberry –
hairy highbush blueberry –
Distribution
order_codeStatusContinentSubcontinentCountryStateNote
1NativeNorthern AmericaEastern CanadaCanadaOntarios.e.
1NativeNorthern AmericaEastern CanadaCanadaQuébecs.w.
1NativeNorthern AmericaNorth-Central U.S.A.United StatesOklahoma 
1NativeNorthern AmericaNortheastern U.S.A.United StatesConnecticut 
1NativeNorthern AmericaNortheastern U.S.A.United StatesIndiana 
1NativeNorthern AmericaNortheastern U.S.A.United StatesMaine 
1NativeNorthern AmericaNortheastern U.S.A.United StatesMassachusetts 
1NativeNorthern AmericaNortheastern U.S.A.United StatesNew Hampshire 
1NativeNorthern AmericaNortheastern U.S.A.United StatesNew Jersey 
1NativeNorthern AmericaNortheastern U.S.A.United StatesNew York 
1NativeNorthern AmericaNortheastern U.S.A.United StatesOhio 
1NativeNorthern AmericaNortheastern U.S.A.United StatesPennsylvania 
1NativeNorthern AmericaNortheastern U.S.A.United StatesRhode Island 
1NativeNorthern AmericaNortheastern U.S.A.United StatesVermont 
1NativeNorthern AmericaNortheastern U.S.A.United StatesWest Virginia 
1NativeNorthern AmericaSouth-Central U.S.A.United StatesTexas 
1NativeNorthern AmericaSoutheastern U.S.A.United StatesAlabama 
1NativeNorthern AmericaSoutheastern U.S.A.United StatesArkansas 
1NativeNorthern AmericaSoutheastern U.S.A.United StatesDelaware 
1NativeNorthern AmericaSoutheastern U.S.A.United StatesFloridan.
1NativeNorthern AmericaSoutheastern U.S.A.United StatesGeorgia 
1NativeNorthern AmericaSoutheastern U.S.A.United StatesKentucky 
1NativeNorthern AmericaSoutheastern U.S.A.United StatesMaryland 
1NativeNorthern AmericaSoutheastern U.S.A.United StatesNorth Carolina 
1NativeNorthern AmericaSoutheastern U.S.A.United StatesSouth Carolina 
1NativeNorthern AmericaSoutheastern U.S.A.United StatesTennessee 
1NativeNorthern AmericaSoutheastern U.S.A.United StatesVirginia 
2Cultivated    also cult.
Native
Northern America
  • EASTERN CANADA: Canada [Québec (s.w.), Ontario (s.e.)]
  • NORTHEASTERN U.S.A.: United States [Connecticut, Indiana, Maine, Massachusetts, New Hampshire, New Jersey, New York, Ohio, Pennsylvania, Rhode Island, Vermont, West Virginia]
  • NORTH-CENTRAL U.S.A.: United States [Oklahoma]
  • SOUTHEASTERN U.S.A.: United States [Alabama, Arkansas, Delaware, Florida (n.), Georgia, Kentucky, Maryland, North Carolina, South Carolina, Tennessee, Virginia]
  • SOUTH-CENTRAL U.S.A.: United States [Texas]
Cultivated (also cult.)
Economic Uses
UsageTypeNoteReference
Environmentalornamental Krüssmann, G. 1984. Manual of cultivated broad-leaved trees and shrubs (English translation of Handbuch der Laubgehölze. 1976) Note: = Vaccinium atrococcum (A. Gray) A. Heller
Human foodfruit Kunkel, G. 1984. Plants for human consumption Note: = Vaccinium atrococcum (A. Gray) A. Heller
Human foodfruit Krüssmann, G. 1984. Manual of cultivated broad-leaved trees and shrubs (English translation of Handbuch der Laubgehölze. 1976) Note: = Vaccinium atrococcum (A. Gray) A. Heller
Cite as: USDA, Agricultural Research Service, National Plant Germplasm System. 2025. Germplasm Resources Information Network (GRIN Taxonomy). National Germplasm Resources Laboratory, Beltsville, Maryland.
URL: https://grip.mawarid.gov.om/gringlobal/taxon/taxonomydetail?id=41017. Accessed 6 May 2025.