Vaccinium hirsutum |
Vaccinium ovalifolium |
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Alaska blueberry, oval-leaf blueberry |
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Habit | Spreading deciduous shrub 4-10 dm. tall, flowering before the leaves have reached half their mature size; twigs yellowish-green strongly angled, glabrous, the old branches grayish. | |
Leaves | Leaves alternate, ovate-elliptic, 2-4 cm. long, glabrous, glaucous on the lower surface, entire. |
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Flowers | Flowers single in the axils, about 7 mm. long; pedicels 1-5 mm. long, strongly recurved in fruit, not enlarged immediately under the berry; corolla entire, pinkish, narrowly urn-shaped, longer than broad, broadest just below mid-length; anthers with dorsal awns and terminal pore-bearing tubes; ovary inferior. |
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Fruits | Fruit a berry, purplish-black to bluish-black, 6-9 mm. long. |
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Vaccinium hirsutum |
Vaccinium ovalifolium |
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Flowering time | May-July | |
Habitat | Coniferous forests and open slopes from low elevations to the subalpine. | |
Distribution | Occurring in forested and mountainous areas on both sides of the Cascades crest in Washington; Alaska to Oregon, east to Alberta and Idaho, in the Great Lakes region, and eastern Canada; eastern Asia.
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Origin | Native | |
Conservation status | Not of concern | |
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