Vaccinium boreale |
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bleuet boréal, northern blueberry, sweet hurts |
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Habit | Plants forming small, dense colonies, 0.1–0.9 dm, (superficially rhizomatous); twigs green, (delicate), angled, (intricately branched), hairy in lines. |
Leaves | deciduous; blade bright green, narrowly elliptic, 8–21 × 2–6 mm, membranous, margins sharply, uniformly serrate, surfaces usually glabrous, eglandular abaxially. |
Flowers | calyx green, glaucous, glabrous (sometimes ciliate); corolla white to greenish white, cylindric, 3–4 mm; filaments ciliate. |
Berries | blue, glaucous, 3–5 mm diam., glabrous. |
Seeds | 10–30, ca. 1.1 mm. |
2n | = 24. |
Vaccinium boreale |
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Phenology | Flowering late spring–early summer. |
Habitat | Headlands, open, rocky uplands, alpine heaths and meadows, forest-tundra. 0-2000 m |
Distribution |
ME; NH; NY; VT; NB; NL; NS; QC
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Source | FNA vol. 8, p. 528. |
Parent taxa | Ericaceae > subfam. Vaccinioideae > Vaccinium > sect. Cyanococcus |
Sibling taxa | |
Name authority | I. V. Hall & Aalders: Amer. J. Bot. 48: 200. 1961 , |
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