Vaccinium cespitosum |
Vaccinium scoparium |
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dwarf bilberry, dwarf huckleberry |
grouseberry |
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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. | Deciduous shrub, more or less matted, 1-2.5 dm. tall, the branches numerous, slender, broom-like, strongly angled, greenish or yellowish-green, usually glabrous. |
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. |
Leaves lanceolate to ovate-lanceolate, 8-15 mm. long, finely serrulate, light green, usually glabrous, conspicuously veiny on the lower surface. |
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. |
Flowers solitary in the axils of the lowest leaves of the youngest shoots, short-petiolate; corolla entire, pinkish, broadly urn-shaped, about 4 mm. long; anthers with awns and terminal pore-bearing tubes; ovary inferior. |
Fruits | Fruit a berry, glaucous-blue, globose, 5-8 mm. broad. |
Fruit a bright red berry, globose, 3-5 mm. broad. |
Vaccinium cespitosum |
Vaccinium scoparium |
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Flowering time | May-July | May-August |
Habitat | Moist rocky ridges and meadows, mid- to high elevations in the mountains. | Open, dry forests, 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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Occurring on both sides of the Cascades crest in Washington; British Columbia to California, east to the Rocky Mountains and northern Great Plains.
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Origin | Native | Native |
Conservation status | Not of concern | Not of concern |
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