Vaccinium myrtilloides |
Vaccinium deliciosum |
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bleuet fausse-myrtille, sour-top blueberry, sourtop, velvet-leaf blueberry, velvetleaf huckleberry |
blue-leaf huckleberry, Cascade bilberry, Cascade blueberry, Cascade huckleberry, Cascades blueberry, Rainier blueberry |
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Habit | Plants forming ± open colonies, 1–11.5 dm; twigs greenish brown, terete, pilose or hairy. | Plants forming small clumps to extensive open colonies, 0.5–15 dm, rhizomatous; twigs green, sometimes glaucous, ± terete, rarely angled, usually glabrous, rarely hairy along veins or puberulent. |
Leaves | deciduous; blade green, elliptic, 23–35 × 8–16 mm, membranous to subcoriaceous, margins entire, surfaces ± densely hairy (sometimes mostly on veins), eglandular, sometimes glabrescent. |
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. |
Flowers | calyx green, glabrous, (eglandular); corolla greenish white to pink, urceolate, 3–5 mm, (eglandular); filaments usually hairy. |
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. |
Berries | blue, glaucous, 6–8 mm diam., glabrous. |
usually blue, glaucous, sometimes dull black, maroon, or red, 9–13 mm diam. |
Seeds | 10–40, ca. 1 mm. |
ca. 1 mm. |
2n | = 24. |
= 48. |
Vaccinium myrtilloides |
Vaccinium deliciosum |
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Phenology | Flowering late spring–early summer. | Flowering late spring–early summer. |
Habitat | Open or disturbed sites in boreal forest, muskegs, bogs, barrens, headlands, outcrops, mountain meadows | Alpine meadows, subalpine coniferous woods, talus slopes |
Elevation | 0-1700 m (0-5600 ft) | 600-2000 m (2000-6600 ft) |
Distribution |
CT; IA; IL; IN; MA; ME; MN; MT; NH; NY; OH; PA; VT; WI; WV; AB; BC; LB; MB; NB; NS; NT; ON; PE; QC; SK
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CA; ID; OR; WA; BC
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Discussion | 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.) |
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Source | FNA vol. 8, p. 529. | FNA vol. 8, p. 523. |
Parent taxa | Ericaceae > subfam. Vaccinioideae > Vaccinium > sect. Cyanococcus | Ericaceae > subfam. Vaccinioideae > Vaccinium > sect. Myrtillus |
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Synonyms | Cyanococcus canadensis, V. angustifolium var. myrtilloides, V. canadense | |
Name authority | Michaux: Fl. Bor.-Amer. 1: 234. 1803 , | Piper: Mazama 2: 103. 1901 , |
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