Vaccinium deliciosum
Vaccinium pallidum
blue-leaf huckleberry, Cascade bilberry, Cascade blueberry, Cascade huckleberry, Cascades blueberry, Rainier blueberry
Blue Ridge blueberry, Blue Ridge or late low-bush blueberry, hillside blueberry, lowbush blueberry
blades usually glaucous, obovate, oblanceolate, or, rarely, elliptic, 17–35 × 9–17 mm, margins usually serrate for at least distal 2/3, surfaces usually glabrous, eglandular or, rarely, glandular throughout, often glandular-hairy along midvein.
persistent.
terminal, racemes, on lateral twigs, on previous year’s shoots or older woody stems.
articulated with calyx tube.
calyx glaucous, lobes indistinct or shallow, glabrous;
corolla pink, creamy pink, or red, globose to globular-urceolate, 4–6 × 5–7 mm, thin, glaucous;
filaments glabrous.
sepals 5;
petals 4–5, connate for nearly their entire lengths, corolla cylindric or urceolate;
stamens 10, included;
anthers ± without awns, tubules 1–1.5 mm, with terminal pores.
usually blue, glaucous, sometimes dull black, maroon, or red, 9–13 mm diam.
[4-], 5-, [pseudo 8-, or pseudo 10]-locular.
ca. 1 mm.
10–25, (ca. 1 mm).
= 48.
Vaccinium deliciosum
Vaccinium pallidum
Vaccinium deliciosum produces especially flavorful berries. Research at the University of Idaho and Washington State University identified 31 aromatic flavor compounds in the fruits. Despite its outstanding flavor and large fruit size, it is harvested less than is V. membranaceum because it has a smaller range and is less abundant there than its black-fruited congener. Also, like V. membranaceum, V. deliciosum is native at higher elevations and can be difficult to grow at low elevations. Although rhizomatous, V. deliciosum has a dense root system and transplants easily.
(Discussion copyrighted by Flora of North America; reprinted with permission.)
The flowers of Vaccinium pallidum are visited primarily by Andrena carlini Cockerell and Bombus spp. This species occasionally hybridizes with V. angustifolium, yielding V. ×dobbinii Burnham.
(Discussion copyrighted by Flora of North America; reprinted with permission.)
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