Vaccinium hirsutum is a North American species of flowering plant in the heath family known by the common name hairy blueberry.
Description The species forms a shrub up to tall, forming large colonies. The leaves are thick, elliptical, densely hairy, and up to long.
White, cylindrical flowers appear in late spring, followed by hairy, black berries in the summer.
Distribution and habitat This species is endemic to a small area in the southern Appalachian Mountains, where it is only known from a few counties in eastern Tennessee, northern Georgia, and the Carolinas.Biota of North America Program 2014 county distribution map
It is native to dry oak-pine ridges, where it can be locally abundant.
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