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Vaccinium scoparium

Vaccinium parvifolium

grouseberry

red huckleberry
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. Erect shrub 1-4 m. tall, the branches green, very prominently angled, usually glabrous.
Leaves

Leaves lanceolate to ovate-lanceolate, 8-15 mm. long, finely serrulate, light green, usually glabrous, conspicuously veiny on the lower surface.

Leaves tardily deciduous, often a few persistent, thin, oval to oblong-elliptic, rounded, 1-2.5 cm. long, usually glabrous and entire.
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.

Flowers solitary in the axils of the lowest leaves of the youngest shoots, short-petiolate;

corolla entire, pale, waxy, yellowish-pink, broadly urn-shaped, about 4 mm. long;

anthers with prominent, spreading-erect awns and short, apical pore-bearing tubes;

ovary inferior.
Fruits

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

Fruit a bright red berry, globose, 6-9 mm. broad.

Vaccinium scoparium

Vaccinium parvifolium
Flowering time May-August April-June
Habitat Open, dry forests, mid- to high elevations in the mountains. Moist woods, forest edges and openings, from sea level to middle 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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Occurring chiefly west of the Cascades crest in Washington; Alaska to California.
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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. myrtillus, V. ovalifolium, V. ovatum, V. oxycoccos, V. parvifolium, V. uliginosum
V. cespitosum, V. corymbosum, V. deliciosum, V. macrocarpon, V. membranaceum, V. myrtilloides, V. myrtillus, V. ovalifolium, V. ovatum, V. oxycoccos, V. scoparium, V. uliginosum
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