Vaccinium tenellum, also known as the small black blueberry or southern blueberry, is a North American plant species.
Description Vaccinium tenellum is a deciduous shrub up to tall, often forming large colonies. The leaves are elliptic and up to long.
The flowers are white or pale pink, cylindrical, up to long. The fruits are very dark blue, almost black, and about across.Flora of North America v 8 p 528Aiton, William. 1789. Hortus Kewensis 2: 12.Small, John Kunkel. 1933. Manual of the Southeastern Flora 1014, 1506.Wunderlin, R. P. 1998. Guide to the Vascular Plants of Florida i–x, 1–806. University Press of Florida, Gainesville.Radford, A. E., H. E. Ahles & C. R. Bell. 1968. Manual of the Vascular Flora of the Carolinas i–lxi, 1–1183. University of North Carolina Press, Chapel Hill.Old Dominion University plant site The species is diploid, with 24 total chromosomes.
Distribution and habitat It is native to the southeastern United States from southeastern Mississippi to northern Florida to southern Virginia. It grows in forests and in shrubby areas at elevations up to .
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