Vaccinium boreale |
Vaccinium cespitosum |
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bleuet boréal, northern blueberry, sweet hurts |
airelle gazonnante, dwarf bilberry, dwarf blueberry, dwarf huckleberry |
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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. | Plants forming dense colonies, 0.3–6 dm, superficially rhizomatous; twigs yellow-green, reddish green, or reddish brown, terete to somewhat angled, finely puberulent or, rarely, glabrous. |
Leaves | deciduous; blade bright green, narrowly elliptic, 8–21 × 2–6 mm, membranous, margins sharply, uniformly serrate, surfaces usually glabrous, eglandular abaxially. |
blades green, usually oblanceolate, sometimes obovate or narrowly elliptic, 10–30 × 3–12 mm, margins usually serrulate from apex to at least mid blade, surfaces usually glandular abaxially, usually glabrous adaxially. |
Flowers | calyx green, glaucous, glabrous (sometimes ciliate); corolla white to greenish white, cylindric, 3–4 mm; filaments ciliate. |
calyx pale green, lobes vestigial, glabrous; corolla white, white with pink striping, or pink, cylindric-urceolate to globose, 4–7 × 3–5 mm, thin, glaucous; filaments glabrous. |
Berries | blue, glaucous, 3–5 mm diam., glabrous. |
usually blue, glaucous, rarely dull black, 5–9 mm diam. |
Seeds | 10–30, ca. 1.1 mm. |
ca. 1 mm. |
2n | = 24. |
= 24. |
Vaccinium boreale |
Vaccinium cespitosum |
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Phenology | Flowering late spring–early summer. | Flowering late spring-mid summer. |
Habitat | Headlands, open, rocky uplands, alpine heaths and meadows, forest-tundra. 0-2000 m | Open, usually dry habitats, from lowland to subalpine areas |
Elevation | 0-4500 m (0-14800 ft) | |
Distribution |
ME; NH; NY; VT; NB; NL; NS; QC
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AK; CA; CO; ID; ME; MI; MN; MT; NH; NM; NY; OR; VT; WA; WI; WY; AB; BC; MB; NB; NL; NS; NT; NU; ON; QC; SK; YT; Mexico (Chihuahua, Durango, Hidalgo); Central America (Guatemala)
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Source | FNA vol. 8, p. 528. | FNA vol. 8, p. 524. |
Parent taxa | Ericaceae > subfam. Vaccinioideae > Vaccinium > sect. Cyanococcus | Ericaceae > subfam. Vaccinioideae > Vaccinium > sect. Myrtillus |
Sibling taxa | ||
Synonyms | V. arbuscula, V. caespitosum var. arbuscula, V. caespitosum var. paludicola, V. geminiflorum, V. nivictum, V. paludicola | |
Name authority | I. V. Hall & Aalders: Amer. J. Bot. 48: 200. 1961 , | Michaux: Fl. Bor.-Amer. 1: 234. 1803 , |
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