Vaccinium tenellum Gene Cline and native thickets alike

and native thickets alike

velvet mallow

Red yucca asks for almost nothing: full sun

The flower clusters are shorter and denser

and the habit is open and airy rather than dense

Vaccinium tenellum Gene Cline and native thickets alikeSmall black blueberry is a low, delicate native of the sandy soils and pine barrens of the Southeastern coastal plain, a slender member of the heath family long gathered from the wild for its fruit. The species name tenellum means dainty or tender, a fair description of the fine stems and small leaves, and the common name points to the little dark berries that ripen almost black in late summer. A tidy, low, deciduous shrub rarely more than knee to