Vaccinium boreale |
Vaccinium erythrocarpum |
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bleuet boréal, northern blueberry, sweet hurts |
dingleberry, southern mountain cranberry |
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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. |
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Flowers | calyx green, glaucous, glabrous (sometimes ciliate); corolla white to greenish white, cylindric, 3–4 mm; filaments ciliate. |
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Berries | blue, glaucous, 3–5 mm diam., glabrous. |
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Seeds | 10–30, ca. 1.1 mm. |
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e | United States |
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2n | = 24. |
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Vaccinium boreale |
Vaccinium erythrocarpum |
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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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GA; NC; TN; VA; WV; se Asia
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Discussion | Subspecies 2 (1 in the flora). Subspecies japonicum (Miquel) Kloet [V. japonicum Miquel] is disjunct in southeastern Asia (S. P. Vander Kloet and B. A. Bohm 1991). (Discussion copyrighted by Flora of North America; reprinted with permission.) |
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Source | FNA vol. 8, p. 528. | FNA vol. 8, p. 517. |
Parent taxa | Ericaceae > subfam. Vaccinioideae > Vaccinium > sect. Cyanococcus | Ericaceae > subfam. Vaccinioideae > Vaccinium > sect. Oxycoccoides |
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Synonyms | Hugeria erythrocarpa, Oxycoccus erectus | |
Name authority | I. V. Hall & Aalders: Amer. J. Bot. 48: 200. 1961 , | Michaux: Fl. Bor.-Amer. 1: 227. (1803) |
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