PINE LAND BLUEBERRY 
Vaccinium tenellum Aiton 
Pineland blueberry is a low shrub, rarely over three feet high. It 
has long, slender, woody underground stems, from which rise at 
irregular intervals the stiff, bushy branches. The flowers open in 
early spring, before the finely toothed leaves are fully expanded. The 
edible berties are a quarter of an inch in diameter, and black, with a 
whitish bloom over their surface. 
Pineland blueberry ranges from Florida to Virginia and westward 
to Mississippi. It is a shrub of the Coastal Plain, and grows chiefly 
in sandy pine woods. 
The sketch was made from specimens collected at Beaufort, South 
Carolina. 
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