Flora of North America species comparison

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Vaccinium boreale

Vaccinium ovatum

bleuet boréal, northern blueberry, sweet hurts

California huckleberry, evergreen huckelberry, evergreen huckleberry, winter huckleberry
Habit Plants forming small, dense colonies, 0.1–0.9 dm, (superficially rhizomatous); twigs green, (delicate), angled, (intricately branched), hairy in lines. Plants clump- or crown-forming; twigs ± terete, pilose.
Leaves

deciduous;

blade bright green, narrowly elliptic, 8–21 × 2–6 mm, membranous, margins sharply, uniformly serrate, surfaces usually glabrous, eglandular abaxially.

blades pale green abaxially, lustrous dark green adaxially, narrowly ovate, 21–29 × 8–12 mm, coriaceous, margins sharply serrate, surfaces glandular abaxially.
Flowers

calyx green, glaucous, glabrous (sometimes ciliate);

corolla white to greenish white, cylindric, 3–4 mm;

filaments ciliate.

corolla pinkish, 3–5 mm;

filaments hairy.
Berries

blue, glaucous, 3–5 mm diam., glabrous.

black or blue, 6–8 mm diam. 2n = 24.
Seeds

10–30, ca. 1.1 mm.

2n

= 24.

Vaccinium boreale

Vaccinium ovatum
Phenology Flowering late spring–early summer. Flowering early spring-mid summer.
Habitat Headlands, open, rocky uplands, alpine heaths and meadows, forest-tundra. 0-2000 m Edges of coniferous forests, also epiphytic on trunks of redwoods
Elevation 0-30 m (0-100 ft)
Distribution
from FNA
ME; NH; NY; VT; NB; NL; NS; QC
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from FNA
CA; OR; WA; BC
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Source FNA vol. 8, p. 528. FNA vol. 8, p. 530.
Parent taxa Ericaceae > subfam. Vaccinioideae > Vaccinium > sect. Cyanococcus Ericaceae > subfam. Vaccinioideae > Vaccinium > sect. Pyxothamnus
Sibling taxa
V. angustifolium, V. arboreum, V. cespitosum, V. corymbosum, V. crassifolium, V. darrowii, V. deliciosum, V. erythrocarpum, V. hirsutum, V. macrocarpon, V. membranaceum, V. myrsinites, V. myrtilloides, V. myrtillus, V. ovalifolium, V. ovatum, V. oxycoccos, V. pallidum, V. parvifolium, V. scoparium, V. stamineum, V. tenellum, V. uliginosum, V. vitis-idaea
V. angustifolium, V. arboreum, V. boreale, V. cespitosum, V. corymbosum, V. crassifolium, V. darrowii, V. deliciosum, V. erythrocarpum, V. hirsutum, V. macrocarpon, V. membranaceum, V. myrsinites, V. myrtilloides, V. myrtillus, V. ovalifolium, V. oxycoccos, V. pallidum, V. parvifolium, V. scoparium, V. stamineum, V. tenellum, V. uliginosum, V. vitis-idaea
Synonyms V. ovatum var. saporosum
Name authority I. V. Hall & Aalders: Amer. J. Bot. 48: 200. 1961 , Pursh: Fl. Amer. Sept. 1: 290. 1813 ,
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