#1634 most planted
Vaccinium corymbosum
Highbush blueberry · also Rabbiteye blueberry, American blueberry, Blueberry
Deciduous
26
trees mapped
0.00%
of all named trees
1
city
19 yr
median age (96% have a planting date)
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Vaccinium corymbosum, commonly known as highbush blueberry, is a North American deciduous shrub widely cultivated for its edible fruit. It serves as a food source for humans and wildlife and can be used as an ornamental hedge. It thrives in moist, acidic soils in eastern USA and Canada.
Where it grows
Trees in each city's inventory, with the share of that city's named trees this species accounts for.
- 260.02%19 yr—
Traits
- Foliage
- Deciduous
- Mature height
- 4.9 ft
- Soil
- Acidic
- Water needs
- High
- Wildlife value
- High
Native range
Terrestrial ecoregions where this species is native. Trees in the dataset mostly stand well outside it.
Temperate Broadleaf & Mixed Forests
- Eastern Canadian Forest-Boreal transition
- New England-Acadian forests
Other Vaccinium in the catalogue
2 of the top 2,000 species are in this genus.
