Vaccinium boreale |
Vaccinium scoparium |
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grouseberry, grouse whortleberry |
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Habit | Shrubs deciduous, up to 4 dm; branching habit crowded, giving a “broom-like” appearance; twigs strongly angled, green to yellowish green, glabrous; rhizomatous. | |
Leaves | elliptic to ovate-lanceolate, 7–15 × 4–14 mm, light green abaxially, green adaxially; thin; flexible; margins finely serrate from tips to near base, prominently veined; tips acute; surfaces abaxially often glandular, adaxially glabrous. |
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Inflorescences | solitary flowers in axils. |
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Flowers | sepals 5; calyces very shallowly lobed, glabrous; petals 5; corollas urceolate to globose, 3–4 × 3–5 mm, pink, glaucous; filaments glabrous. |
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Fruits | 3–6 mm in diameter, bright red to bluish purple; without a bloom. |
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2n | =24. |
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Vaccinium boreale |
Vaccinium scoparium |
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Distribution | ||
Discussion | Subalpine and alpine meadows, slopes and pine forests. Flowering May–Aug. 1000–2700 m. BR, BW, Casc, CR, ECas, Sisk. CA, ID, NV, WA; northeast to Alberta, east to SD, southeast to NM. Native. See also V. myrtillus. |
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Source | Flora of Oregon, volume 2, page 641 Stephen Meyers |
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