Vaccinium corymbosum
[4][10] In natural habitats, the berries are a food source for native and migrating birds, bears, and small mammals.[12] Many wild species of Vaccinium are thought to have been cultivated by Native Americans for thousands of years, with intentional crop burnings in northeastern areas being apparent from archeological evidence.[5] V. corymbosum, being one of the species likely used by these peoples, was later studied and domesticated in 1908 by Elizabeth Coleman White and Frederick Vernon Coville.[citation needed] It is also cultivated as an ornamental plant for home and wildlife gardens and natural landscaping projects.Some named Southern highbush blueberry are hybridized forms derived from crosses between V. corymbosum and V. darrowii, a native of the Southeastern U.S.