Northern highbush blueberry
Vaccinium corymbosum L.
- light
- Sun–part
- water
- Medium
- tall
- 2.7 m
- wide
- 2.4 m
Ericaceae
Also called Highbush blueberry, New Jersey blueberry, Southern blueberry, Smallflower blueberry, Smooth Highbush Blueberry
Formerly Cyanococcus corymbosus, Cyanococcus simulatus, Polycodium arcuatum, Polycodium sericeum, and 16 more
When it flowers
Not known yet in the tropics: too few flowering observations to read a season from.
Read from iNaturalist photographs of it in flower. A month counts at 50% of the best month's flowering share (smoothed over three months) and 10% of its flowering count, from at least 100 flowering observations in the band.
If a child, a pet or anyone may have eaten a plant, contact a doctor or vet straight away, or call the National Poisons Information Centre (AIIMS, New Delhi) on 1800 116 117, free and open 24 hours.
Something wrong with it?About it
- Grows as
- ShrubKew's checklist, not yet checked
- Climate
- TemperateKew's checklist, not yet checked
- Wild in
- E. Canada to NC. & E. U.S.A.Kew's checklist, not yet checked
- Light
- Full sun to part shade (3 h or more)Read from NC State Extension, one source
- Height
- 1.8 m to 3.7 mRead from NC State Extension, one source
- Spread
- 1.8 m to 3.0 mRead from NC State Extension, one source
- Water
- Average: moist, well drainedRead from NC State Extension, one source
- Flowers
- White, pinkRead from NC State Extension, one source
- Coldest it survives
- -40 °C (USDA zone 3a)Read from NC State Extension, one source
Not known yet: heat, hottest it survives.
In other languages (12)
- root
- VACCOR
- French
- Myrtille arbustive, Grande Myrtille, Myrtille américaine
- German
- Amerikanische Heidelbeere, Amerikanische Blaubeere
- Danish
- Amerikansk blåbær
- Estonian
- kännasmustikas
- Russian
- Голубика высокорослая
- Polish
- Borówka wysoka
- Czech
- brusnice chocholičnatá
- Lithuanian
- Aukštoji šilauogė
- Spanish
- Arándano azul, Arándano
- Chinese
- 北方高叢藍莓, 黑果木, 兔眼蓝莓
- Chinese (China)
- 北高丛蓝莓
Where this comes from
- iNaturalist, read 2026-10-25, CC0-1.0 (observation counts)
- Wikidata, read 2026-10-25, CC0-1.0
- Kew's checklist, read 2026-10-24, CC-BY-4.0
- NC State Extension, read 2026-10-25, fact, cited
- Wikimedia Commons, read 2026-10-25, Public domain
- iNaturalist, read 2026-10-25, CC BY-SA
- iNaturalist, read 2026-10-25, CC BY
- iNaturalist, read 2026-10-25, CC BY
- 3D model: Vaccinium corymbosum (built for Vanagrha) by Vanagrha, own
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