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Vaccinium uliginosum

bog bilberry, bog blueberry
Habit Deciduous, branching shrub, the stems 2-6 dm. tall, not angled, the young bark yellowish-green, becoming reddish-gray with age.
Leaves

Leaves alternate, entire, oblanceolate 1-3 cm. long, glabrous or finely puberulent.
Flowers

Flowers 1-4 in the leaf axils, pink, 5-6 mm. long, the sepals deltoid, persistent, the corolla broadly urn-shaped;

anthers with awns and terminal pore-bearing tubes;

ovary inferior.
Fruits

Fruit a blue berry, glaucous, 5-7 mm. broad.

Vaccinium uliginosum
Flowering time June-August
Habitat Bogs and fens from low elevation to subalpine.
Distribution
Occurring on both sides of the Cascades crest in Washington; Alaska to California, east to Nevada, Utah, Wyoming and Montana, east across northern North America to the Atlantic.
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Origin Native
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
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