Vaccinium corymbosum (Black Highbush Blueberry)

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Vaccinium corymbosum, photographed by Bobby McCabe — fig. a Bobby McCabe, CC BY 4.0 / 2021-07-05 / obs. 141187855

Vaccinium corymbosum, photographed by Bonnie Semmling — fig. b Bonnie Semmling, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 134477867

Vaccinium corymbosum, photographed by natalie — fig. c natalie, CC0 1.0 / obs. 117408498

Vaccinium corymbosum, photographed by Siddarth Machado — fig. d Siddarth Machado, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 118747697

Vaccinium corymbosum, photographed by Laura Gaudette — fig. e Laura Gaudette, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 116193768

Vaccinium corymbosum, photographed by Jessica — fig. f Jessica, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 73404027

Vaccinium corymbosum, photographed by Dwight Kingsbury — fig. g Dwight Kingsbury, CC0 1.0 / obs. 114255201

Vaccinium corymbosum, photographed by Ashwin Srinivasan — fig. h Ashwin Srinivasan, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 65672518

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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.

Vaccinium angustifoliumcalled this one 5x compare

Flowering n = 168 observations

Flowering observations of Vaccinium corymbosum by month
Month	Observations
Jan	4
Feb	43
Mar	63
Apr	38
May	17
Jun	1
Jul	0
Aug	0
Sep	1
Oct	0
Nov	0
Dec	1

Peak flowering in Mar, from 168 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 42 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 amoenus (Aiton) Small
Cyanococcus atrococcus (A.Gray) Small
Cyanococcus corymbosus (L.) Rydb.
Cyanococcus elliottii (Chapm.) Small
Cyanococcus fuscatus (Aiton) Small
Cyanococcus holophyllus Small
Cyanococcus margarettae (Ashe) Small
Cyanococcus simulatus (Small) Small
Polycodium sericeum (C.Mohr) C.B.Rob.
Polycodium sericeum f. chrysocarpon Ashe
Polycodium sericeum var. eburneum Ashe
Polycodium sericeum var. elongatum Ashe
Vaccinium albiflorum Hook.
Vaccinium amoenum Aiton
Vaccinium arcuatum (Ashe) Sleumer
Vaccinium ashei Reade
Vaccinium constablaei A.Gray
Vaccinium corymbosum f. corymbosum
Vaccinium corymbosum var. albiflorum (Hook.) Fernald
Vaccinium corymbosum var. atrococcum A.Gray
Vaccinium corymbosum var. corymbosum
Vaccinium corymbosum var. fuscatum (Aiton) Hook.
Vaccinium cuthbertii (Small) Uphof
Vaccinium disocarpum A.Gray

and 18 more.

Sourcesevery claim on this page

World Flora Online Plant List. accepted name, authority, classification. CC0. Retrieved 2026-07-12.
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.