Vaccinium myrtilloides |
Vaccinium erythrocarpum |
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bleuet fausse-myrtille, sour-top blueberry, sourtop, velvet-leaf blueberry, velvetleaf huckleberry |
dingleberry, southern mountain cranberry |
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Habit | Plants forming ± open colonies, 1–11.5 dm; twigs greenish brown, terete, pilose or hairy. | |
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. |
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Flowers | calyx green, glabrous, (eglandular); corolla greenish white to pink, urceolate, 3–5 mm, (eglandular); filaments usually hairy. |
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Berries | blue, glaucous, 6–8 mm diam., glabrous. |
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Seeds | 10–40, ca. 1 mm. |
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e | United States |
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2n | = 24. |
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Vaccinium myrtilloides |
Vaccinium erythrocarpum |
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Phenology | Flowering late spring–early summer. | |
Habitat | Open or disturbed sites in boreal forest, muskegs, bogs, barrens, headlands, outcrops, mountain meadows | |
Elevation | 0-1700 m (0-5600 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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GA; NC; TN; VA; WV; se Asia
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Discussion | Subspecies 2 (1 in the flora). Subspecies japonicum (Miquel) Kloet [V. japonicum Miquel] is disjunct in southeastern Asia (S. P. Vander Kloet and B. A. Bohm 1991). (Discussion copyrighted by Flora of North America; reprinted with permission.) |
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Source | FNA vol. 8, p. 529. | FNA vol. 8, p. 517. |
Parent taxa | Ericaceae > subfam. Vaccinioideae > Vaccinium > sect. Cyanococcus | Ericaceae > subfam. Vaccinioideae > Vaccinium > sect. Oxycoccoides |
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Synonyms | Cyanococcus canadensis, V. angustifolium var. myrtilloides, V. canadense | Hugeria erythrocarpa, Oxycoccus erectus |
Name authority | Michaux: Fl. Bor.-Amer. 1: 234. 1803 , | Michaux: Fl. Bor.-Amer. 1: 227. (1803) |
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