Vaccinium angustifoliumAiton

lowbush blueberry

WFO wfo-0000422967 Accepted WFO 2026-06 8 photographs CC0 / CC BY

Plate 1 figs. a–h

Vaccinium angustifolium, photographed by Todd Boland
fig. a Todd Boland, CC BY 4.0 / 2022-06-11 / obs. 205277140
Vaccinium angustifolium, photographed by Ryan Sorrells
fig. b Ryan Sorrells, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 205674140
Vaccinium angustifolium, photographed by Tyler Smith
fig. c Tyler Smith, CC BY-SA 4.0 / obs. 203696504
Vaccinium angustifolium, photographed by Liren Varghese
fig. d Liren Varghese, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 205025007
Vaccinium angustifolium, photographed by Jamie VanBuskirk
fig. e Jamie VanBuskirk, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 200595654
Vaccinium angustifolium, photographed by Jamie VanBuskirk
fig. f Jamie VanBuskirk, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 200599964
Vaccinium angustifolium, photographed by Mary E. Macaulay, P.Eng.
fig. g Mary E. Macaulay, P.Eng., CC BY 4.0 / obs. 202539741
Vaccinium angustifolium, photographed by Derek
fig. h Derek, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 201083101

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Confused withby our own model

These are not lookalikes we guessed at. Each one is a species our identification model genuinely mistook for this plant, and how many times. The error rate is published.

Flowering n = 1,660 observations

Peak flowering in May, from 1,660 community-annotated observations worldwide. This is a global aggregate, not a forecast for your garden: the same species flowers on different dates in different hemispheres, and citizen-science records cluster near cities, at weekends, and in spring. Where a species has fewer than 30 annotated records we do not draw this chart at all.

Also published as 16 synonyms

A synonym is not an error. It is a record of botanists disagreeing, in print, about where this plant belongs. Each of these was somebody’s considered answer.

  • Cyanococcus angustifolius (Aiton) Rydb.
  • Cyanococcus angustifolius var. laevifolius (House) Moldenke
  • Cyanococcus pensylvanicus (Lam.) Rydb.
  • Vaccinium angustifolium f. angustifolium
  • Vaccinium angustifolium f. chiococcum (W.Deane) B.Boivin
  • Vaccinium angustifolium f. leucocarpum (W.Deane) Rehder
  • Vaccinium angustifolium f. nigrum (Alph.Wood) B.Boivin
  • Vaccinium angustifolium var. angustifolium
  • Vaccinium angustifolium var. laevifolium House
  • Vaccinium brittonii Porter ex E.P.Bicknell
  • Vaccinium humile Willd.
  • Vaccinium lamarckii Camp
  • Vaccinium minutiflorum P.Watson
  • Vaccinium multiflorum Dunal
  • Vaccinium pensylvanicum Lam.
  • Vaccinium ramulosum Willd.

Sourcesevery claim on this page

  1. World Flora Online Plant List. accepted name, authority, classification. CC0. Retrieved 2026-07-12.
  2. iNaturalist. photographs and flowering annotations, CC0 / CC BY / CC BY-SA only. per photograph. Retrieved 2026-06-27.

We publish what we can source and we say so when we cannot. This page has no care advice, no toxicity claim and no native range, because we do not yet have those from a source we can cite.