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Vaccinium tenellum

Vaccinium macrocarpon

cultivated cranberry, large cranberry
Habit Creeping evergreen shrub, often ascending, reaching 0.5-1.5 dm.
Leaves

Leaves alternate, glaucous upper surface, green beneath, elliptic or narrowly elliptic, 5-15 mm long, margins entire and rolled slightly downward.
Flowers

Inflorescences emerging from axils of bracts at base of shoots from current year’s growth; pedicles bracteolate, 2-3 cm, slender, nodding;

bracteoles 2, 1-2 mm wide, resembling scales, greenish white;

calyx lobes small;

corolla white to pink, very deeply 4-lobed, segments 6-10 mm, strongly reflexed;

filaments hairy, 1/3 length of anthers, anthers 1-2 mm.
Fruits

Berries globose, smooth, reddish to pink, 10-15 mm.

Vaccinium tenellum

Vaccinium macrocarpon
Flowering time May-July
Distribution
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Occurring west of the Cascades crest in Washington; British Columbia to California, also in Idaho; native to eastern North America.
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Origin Introduced from northeastern United States
Conservation status 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. scoparium, V. uliginosum
V. cespitosum, V. corymbosum, V. deliciosum, V. membranaceum, V. myrtilloides, V. myrtillus, V. ovalifolium, V. ovatum, V. oxycoccos, V. parvifolium, V. scoparium, V. uliginosum
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