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airelle gazonnante, dwarf bilberry, dwarf blueberry, dwarf huckleberry
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creeping blueberry
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| 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. |
Plants extensively mat-forming (often by layering), with erect branches from lateral buds, rooting and/or swelling into woody burls at nodes; twigs of current year reddish green, terete, finely hairy, not verrucose. |
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. |
blades dark green, elliptic to obovate, (10–)12–15(–39) × (4–)5–7(–24) mm, coriaceous, margins ± entire, surfaces glabrescent. |
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0.1–0.3 cm. |
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. |
calyx lobes distinct; corolla usually white, 3–5 mm; filaments ciliate. |
usually blue, glaucous, rarely dull black, 5–9 mm diam. |
black, 6–8 mm diam., insipid. |
ca. 1 mm. |
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= 24. |
= 24. |
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| Flowering late spring-mid summer. |
Flowering late spring. |
| Open, usually dry habitats, from lowland to subalpine areas |
Coastal plain, open pine flatwoods, pine barrens, pocosin ecotones and associated disturbed areas, road cuts, fire trails, mown roadsides |
| 0-4500 m (0-14800 ft) |
0-200 m (0-700 ft) |
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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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GA; NC; SC; VA
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| FNA vol. 8, p. 524. |
FNA vol. 8, p. 525. |
| Ericaceae > subfam. Vaccinioideae > Vaccinium > sect. Myrtillus |
Ericaceae > subfam. Vaccinioideae > Vaccinium > sect. Herpothamnus |
V. angustifolium, V. arboreum, V. boreale, 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. 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. arbuscula, V. caespitosum var. arbuscula, V. caespitosum var. paludicola, V. geminiflorum, V. nivictum, V. paludicola |
Herpothamnus crassifolius, V. crassifolium subsp. sempervirens, V. sempervirens |
| Michaux: Fl. Bor.-Amer. 1: 234. 1803 , |
Andrews: Bot. Repos. 2: plate 105. (1800) |
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