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'''Creeping blueberry''' ('''''Vaccinium crassifolium''''') is an [[evergreen]] with shiny dark green to bronze [[Leaf|leaves]].  Can be used as groundcover.
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Vaccinium crassifolium, Andr. Slender trailing shrub: sts. 2-3 ft. long: twigs pubescent: lvs. small, 1/4 – 1/2 in. long, leathery and shining, oval to narrowly oblong or ovate or obovate, obtuse, sparsely serrulate or entire: fls. few, almost sessile, in small axillary clusters; corolla globose-campanulate, small (1/8 in. long), rose-red, rarely whitish: berries black. Sandy moist pine lands, N. C. to Ga. B.M. 1152—"Useful for the shrubbery border South."
 
Vaccinium crassifolium, Andr. Slender trailing shrub: sts. 2-3 ft. long: twigs pubescent: lvs. small, 1/4 – 1/2 in. long, leathery and shining, oval to narrowly oblong or ovate or obovate, obtuse, sparsely serrulate or entire: fls. few, almost sessile, in small axillary clusters; corolla globose-campanulate, small (1/8 in. long), rose-red, rarely whitish: berries black. Sandy moist pine lands, N. C. to Ga. B.M. 1152—"Useful for the shrubbery border South."
 
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'''Creeping blueberry''' ('''''Vaccinium crassifolium''''') is an [[evergreen]] with shiny dark green to bronze [[Leaf|leaves]].  Can be used as groundcover.
 
  
 
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Revision as of 21:43, 14 October 2009


A plant at the US Botanical Garden


Plant Characteristics
Habit   shrub

Origin: ✈ SE USA
Cultivation
Scientific Names

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Creeping blueberry (Vaccinium crassifolium) is an evergreen with shiny dark green to bronze leaves. Can be used as groundcover.


Read about Creeping blueberry in the Standard Cyclopedia of Horticulture 

Vaccinium crassifolium, Andr. Slender trailing shrub: sts. 2-3 ft. long: twigs pubescent: lvs. small, 1/4 – 1/2 in. long, leathery and shining, oval to narrowly oblong or ovate or obovate, obtuse, sparsely serrulate or entire: fls. few, almost sessile, in small axillary clusters; corolla globose-campanulate, small (1/8 in. long), rose-red, rarely whitish: berries black. Sandy moist pine lands, N. C. to Ga. B.M. 1152—"Useful for the shrubbery border South."


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Cultivars

Several cultivars are available for planting as a ground cover.[1]

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  1. ↑ MacKenzie, David, S.. Perennial Ground Covers. p. 309. ISBN 0-88192-557-8. 
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