Vaccinium cespitosum |
Vaccinium crassifolium |
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dwarf bilberry, dwarf huckleberry |
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Habit | Deciduous shrubs spreading widely by rhizomes and forming mats 1.5-3 dm. tall, the twigs somewhat angled, with yellowish-green to reddish bark, usually finely puberulent. | |
Leaves | Leaves alternate, oblanceolate, 1-3 cm. long and + to as broad, with a wedge-shaped base, light green and glabrous above, paler and glandular below, serrulate from mid-length to the tips. |
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Flowers | Flowers single in the axils, whitish to pink, 6-7 mm. long; calyx obscurely 5-lobed; corolla united, narrowly urn-shaped, twice as long as wide, the 5 lobes very short; anthers with dorsal awns and apical, pore-bearing tubes; ovary inferior. |
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Fruits | Fruit a berry, glaucous-blue, globose, 5-8 mm. broad. |
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Vaccinium cespitosum |
Vaccinium crassifolium |
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Flowering time | May-July | |
Habitat | Moist rocky ridges and meadows, mid- to high elevations in the mountains. | |
Distribution | Widely distributed in the mountainous areas of Washington; Alaska to California, east to the Rocky Mountains, northern Great Plains, Great Lakes region, and northeastern North America.
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Origin | Native | |
Conservation status | Not of concern | |
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