Vaccinium myrtilloides
Vaccinium macrocarpon
bleuet fausse-myrtille, sour-top blueberry, sourtop, velvet-leaf blueberry, velvetleaf huckleberry
American cranberry, canneberge à gros fruits, cranberry, cultivated cranberry, large cranberry
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 glaucous abaxially, green adaxially, usually narrowly elliptic to elliptic, rarely oblong, 5–18 × 2–55 mm, margins entire, slightly revolute.
in axils of leaflike bracts at base of current year’s shoots.
nodding, slender, 2–3 cm, bracteolate;
bracteoles 2, greenish white, scalelike, 1–2 mm wide.
calyx green, glabrous, (eglandular);
corolla greenish white to pink, urceolate, 3–5 mm, (eglandular);
filaments usually hairy.
calyx lobes relatively small;
corolla strongly reflexed at anthesis, white to pink;
filaments hairy;
anther tubules 1–2 mm.
blue, glaucous, 6–8 mm diam., glabrous.
red to pink, 9–14 mm diam., smooth.
10–40, ca. 1 mm.
= 24.
= 24.
Vaccinium myrtilloides
Vaccinium macrocarpon
Vaccinium macrocarpon is introduced and escaping elsewhere (British Columbia, Oregon, Washington) with respect to its normal range in eastern North America.
(Discussion copyrighted by Flora of North America; reprinted with permission.)
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