Vaccinium boreale |
Vaccinium oxycoccos |
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small cranberry |
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Habit | Evergreen creeping shrub with glabrous to finely pubescent stems. | |
Leaves | Leaves alternate, ovate to lanceolate, acute, 5-15 mm. long, deep green, shining on the upper surface, grayish beneath, strongly revolute. |
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Flowers | Flowers 1-several, terminal or lateral on the stem; pedicels very slender, 2-4 cm. long, usually glabrous, with 2 tiny bractlets usually below mid-length; petals 4, distinct, deep pinkish, 5-8 mm. long, recurved; anthers with pore-bearing terminal tubes but without awns; ovary inferior. |
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Fruits | Fruit a berry, deep red, 5-10 mm. broad. |
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Vaccinium boreale |
Vaccinium oxycoccos |
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Flowering time | May-July | |
Habitat | Usually in sphagnum bogs. | |
Distribution | Occurring chiefly west of the Cascades crest in Washington; Alaska to California, east to Idaho, across Canada; from the upper Midwest to the Atlantic coast.
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Origin | Native | |
Conservation status | Not of concern | |
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