Vaccinium boreale |
Vaccinium ovalifolium |
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early blueberry, oval-leaf blueberry |
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Habit | Shrubs deciduous, 3–35 dm, clumped; stems round in cross section; twigs slightly angled or with sharp ridges, yellow-green to brown, glabrous to minutely puberulent; not rhizomatous. | |
Leaves | ovate to elliptic, 25–40 × 15–20 mm, light green to bluish green; thin; flexible; margins entire to minutely serrate on lower 50%; tips usually rounded or sometimes acute; surfaces usually glaucous, adaxially occasionally glabrous. |
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Inflorescences | solitary flowers in axils. |
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Flowers | sepals 5, glabrous or sometimes glaucous; calyx lobes minute or absent; petals 5; corollas subglobose to urceolate, 4–7 × 3–5 mm, pink, glaucous; filaments < anthers, glabrous. |
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Fruits | 6–10 mm in diameter, blue to black, with a bloom. |
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2n | =24. |
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Vaccinium boreale |
Vaccinium ovalifolium |
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Distribution | ||
Discussion | Moist mid-elevations, occasionally coastal. Flowering Mar–Jul. 0–2100 m. BW, Casc, CR, ECas, Est. North to AK and east to Prince Edward Island; Asia. Native. |
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Source | Flora of Oregon, volume 2, page 640 Stephen Meyers |
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Synonyms | Vaccinium alaskaense | |
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