Vaccinium myrsinites |
Vaccinium vitis-idaea |
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Florida evergreen blueberry, shiny blueberry |
airelle vigne-d'ida, cowberry, foxberry, lingonberry, mountain cranberry, northern mountain cranberry, partridgeberry |
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Habit | Plants forming extensive open colonies, 1.4–10 dm; twigs bright green, ± angled, hairy in lines. | Plants densely colonial, frequently mat-forming; twigs of previous year green, terete, puberulent, not verrucose. |
Leaves | persistent for 1+ years; blade green, elliptic, 5–9 × 3–5 mm, coriaceous, margins ± serrulate, surfaces glandular abaxially. |
blades pale and glandular abaxially, bright green adaxially, elliptic to obovate, 5–18 × 3–9 mm, glaucous-coriaceous, margins entire, slightly revolute. |
Pedicels | 4–6 mm. |
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Flowers | calyx pinkish white, becoming greenish, glabrous; corolla white to pink or red, ± urceolate, 4–8 mm; filaments ciliate along margins. |
corolla pinkish white, 3–5 mm; filaments puberulent. |
Berries | black, 7–9 mm diam., glabrous. |
red, 8–10 mm diam. 2n = 24. |
Seeds | 4–13, ca. 1 mm. |
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2n | = 24, 48. |
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Vaccinium myrsinites |
Vaccinium vitis-idaea |
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Phenology | Flowering winter–spring. | Flowering late spring–early summer. |
Habitat | Flatwoods, sand-pine scrub, oak-palmetto scrub, scrubby flatwoods, rosemary balds | Boreal taiga in jack-pine stands, muskegs, raised bogs, dry, rocky barrens, lichen woodlands, exposed habitats, heaths, high moors, headlands, tundras, cliffs, mountain summits |
Elevation | 0-30 m (0-100 ft) | 0-1800 m (0-5900 ft) |
Distribution |
AL; FL; GA; SC
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AK; CT; MA; ME; MI; MN; NH; VT; WI; AB; BC; MB; NB; NL; NS; NT; NU; ON; PE; QC; SK; YT; SPM; Greenland; n Eurasia; circumboreal
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Discussion | The distribution of Vaccinium vitis-idaea in North America extends from northwestern Greenland at 77° north latitude, south to Connecticut at 42° north latitude, and from 45° west longitude (southern tip of Greenland) west to 170° west longitude (Aleutian Islands); it is rare in Connecticut (not collected since the late 1800s), Massachusetts, Vermont, and Wisconsin. This species has been erroneously reported from New York; it hybridizes with V. myrtillus in northern Europe, producing V. ×intermedium Ruthe. The hybrid might be anticipated in North America, but the two species are not known to occur together anywhere in the flora area. (Discussion copyrighted by Flora of North America; reprinted with permission.) |
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Source | FNA vol. 8, p. 527. | FNA vol. 8, p. 520. |
Parent taxa | Ericaceae > subfam. Vaccinioideae > Vaccinium > sect. Cyanococcus | Ericaceae > subfam. Vaccinioideae > Vaccinium > sect. Vitis-idaea |
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Synonyms | Cyanococcus myrsinites, V. nitidum | V. vitis-idaea subsp. minus, V. vitis-idaea var. minus |
Name authority | Lamarck: in J. Lamarck et al., Encycl. 1: 73. (1783) | Linnaeus: Sp. Pl. 1: 351. (1753) |
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