Vaccinium corymbosum.sl.wikipedia.org (Accessed 5/2015).

Vaccinium is a genus of shrubs; roots associated with highly specialized ascomycota ericoid mycorrhizae, (Allen1991; Berliner and Torrey 1989). No stipules.

Leaves alternate, simple, margins sometimes toothed. Ours mostly deciduous except V. macrocarpon.

Flowers white, sometimes pink in bud; radially symmetrical, 4-5 parted, petals usually fused, corolla urn-shaped or sometimes lobed to below middle; stamens 8-10, shorter than corolla; style mostly longer than stamens.

Vaccinium corymbosum.fruit.Beeren.de.wikipedia.org (Accessed 5/20150.

Fruit fleshy, many-seeded, blue to black or occasionally red. Fruit eaten by many birds and small mammals.

Habitat: undisturbed, acid soil.

Notes:  Leaves and twigs eaten by deer and rabbits (Martin et al. 1951)..