Vaccinium hirsutum |
Vaccinium scoparium |
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grouseberry |
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Habit | 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 lanceolate to ovate-lanceolate, 8-15 mm. long, finely serrulate, light green, usually glabrous, conspicuously veiny on the lower surface. |
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Flowers | 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. |
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Fruits | Fruit a bright red berry, globose, 3-5 mm. broad. |
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Vaccinium hirsutum |
Vaccinium scoparium |
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Flowering time | May-August | |
Habitat | Open, dry forests, mid- to high elevations in the mountains. | |
Distribution | 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 | |
Conservation status | Not of concern | |
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