Vaccinium cespitosum
Vaccinium scoparium
airelle gazonnante, dwarf bilberry, dwarf blueberry, dwarf huckleberry
grouse whortleberry, grouseberry, little-leaf huckleberry
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 pale green abaxially, elliptic, lanceolate, or ovate-lanceolate, 7–11 × 4–6 mm, margins finely serrulate, surfaces glabrous.
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 pale green, lobes vestigial, glabrous;
corolla pink, globose to urceolate, 3–4 × 3–4 mm, thin, glaucous;
filaments glabrous.
usually blue, glaucous, rarely dull black, 5–9 mm diam.
red, ± translucent, or bluish purple, 4–6 mm diam.
ca. 1 mm.
ca. 1 mm.
= 24.
Vaccinium cespitosum
Vaccinium scoparium
The soft, tart, bright red berries of Vaccinium scoparium, to 6 mm diameter, have fair to good flavor and were gathered and eaten raw by the Kootenay, Okanogan, Shuswap, and other Indian tribes. Harvesting was probably done using wooden or fish-bone combs. Small fruit size, low yields, and difficult harvesting make commercial prospects for V. scoparium questionable.
(Discussion copyrighted by Flora of North America; reprinted with permission.)
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