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early blueberry, oval-leaf blueberry

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.

Inflorescences

solitary flowers in axils.

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.

Fruits

6–10 mm in diameter, blue to black, with a bloom.

2n

=24.

Vaccinium boreale

Vaccinium ovalifolium

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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.

Source Flora of Oregon, volume 2, page 640
Stephen Meyers
Sibling taxa
V. caespitosum, V. corymbosum, V. deliciosum, V. macrocarpon, V. membranaceum, V. myrtillus, V. ovalifolium, V. ovatum, V. oxycoccos, V. parvifolium, V. scoparium, V. uliginosum
V. caespitosum, V. corymbosum, V. deliciosum, V. macrocarpon, V. membranaceum, V. myrtillus, V. ovatum, V. oxycoccos, V. parvifolium, V. scoparium, V. uliginosum
Synonyms Vaccinium alaskaense
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