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dwarf blueberry, low blueberry

grouseberry

Habit Deciduous, many-branched shrub 2-3 dm. tall, the branches strongly angled, greenish, usually 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 ovate to elliptic-lanceolate, 1-3 cm. long, light green, strongly serrulate, strongly veiny on the lower surface.

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 on pedicels 2-3 mm. long;

calyx shallowly 5-lobed;

corolla entire, pinkish, broadly urn-shaped;

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, dark red to bluish, 5-8 mm. long.

Fruit a bright red berry, globose, 3-5 mm. broad.

Vaccinium myrtillus

Vaccinium scoparium

Flowering time May-August May-August
Habitat Forest openings at middle elevations in the mountains Open, dry forests, mid- to high elevations in the mountains.
Distribution
Occurring chiefly east of the Cascades crest in Washington; British Columbia to Oregon, east to the Rocky Mountains.
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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
Sibling taxa
V. cespitosum, V. corymbosum, V. deliciosum, V. macrocarpon, V. membranaceum, V. myrtilloides, V. ovalifolium, V. ovatum, V. oxycoccos, V. parvifolium, V. scoparium, V. uliginosum
V. cespitosum, V. corymbosum, V. deliciosum, V. macrocarpon, V. membranaceum, V. myrtilloides, V. myrtillus, V. ovalifolium, V. ovatum, V. oxycoccos, V. parvifolium, V. uliginosum
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