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Alabama
Northern Highbush Blueberry in flower
Rob Hille · CC BY-SA 3.0 · source

Northern Highbush Blueberry

Vaccinium corymbosum

It grows wild in 49 of Alabama’s 67 counties.

Light
Part shade to full sun
Soil
Dry to moist soil
Size
9 ft to 12 ft tall, 8 ft wide
Flowers
Pink and white
Leaves
Deciduous
Roots
Woody roots; wants 16 in of soil
Kind
Shrub
Add to a bedPlan it in a pot

At its grown size

Northern Highbush Blueberry, drawn in a bed

in flowerfruit or seedfall colorbare for winter

What it feeds

Caterpillars
172 kinds of caterpillars
Bees
52 kinds of native bees
Birds
22 kinds of birds
On its flowers
Eastern carpenter bee (Xylocopa virginica), Mining bee (Andrena carlini), Mining bee (Andrena vicina), Mining bee (Andrena carolina)

Grows well with

Inkberry8 ft tallPossumhaw Viburnum8 ft tallNarrowleaf Sunflower6 ft tallPink Azalea7 ft tallWitherod Viburnum8 ft tallCommon Elderberry8 ft tallFlame Azalea10 ft tallSweet Joe-pye-weed6 ft tall

Facts from the Quercus record for Vaccinium corymbosum.