Flora of North America species comparison

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Vaccinium myrtilloides

Vaccinium ovatum

bleuet fausse-myrtille, sour-top blueberry, sourtop, velvet-leaf blueberry, velvetleaf huckleberry

California huckleberry, evergreen huckelberry, evergreen huckleberry, winter huckleberry
Habit Plants forming ± open colonies, 1–11.5 dm; twigs greenish brown, terete, pilose or hairy. Plants clump- or crown-forming; twigs ± terete, pilose.
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 pale green abaxially, lustrous dark green adaxially, narrowly ovate, 21–29 × 8–12 mm, coriaceous, margins sharply serrate, surfaces glandular abaxially.
Flowers

calyx green, glabrous, (eglandular);

corolla greenish white to pink, urceolate, 3–5 mm, (eglandular);

filaments usually hairy.

corolla pinkish, 3–5 mm;

filaments hairy.
Berries

blue, glaucous, 6–8 mm diam., glabrous.

black or blue, 6–8 mm diam. 2n = 24.
Seeds

10–40, ca. 1 mm.

2n

= 24.

Vaccinium myrtilloides

Vaccinium ovatum
Phenology Flowering late spring–early summer. Flowering early spring-mid summer.
Habitat Open or disturbed sites in boreal forest, muskegs, bogs, barrens, headlands, outcrops, mountain meadows Edges of coniferous forests, also epiphytic on trunks of redwoods
Elevation 0-1700 m (0-5600 ft) 0-30 m (0-100 ft)
Distribution
from FNA
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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from FNA
CA; OR; WA; BC
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Source FNA vol. 8, p. 529. FNA vol. 8, p. 530.
Parent taxa Ericaceae > subfam. Vaccinioideae > Vaccinium > sect. Cyanococcus Ericaceae > subfam. Vaccinioideae > Vaccinium > sect. Pyxothamnus
Sibling taxa
V. angustifolium, V. arboreum, V. boreale, V. cespitosum, V. corymbosum, V. crassifolium, V. darrowii, V. deliciosum, V. erythrocarpum, V. hirsutum, V. macrocarpon, V. membranaceum, V. myrsinites, V. myrtillus, V. ovalifolium, V. ovatum, V. oxycoccos, V. pallidum, V. parvifolium, V. scoparium, V. stamineum, V. tenellum, V. uliginosum, V. vitis-idaea
V. angustifolium, V. arboreum, V. boreale, V. cespitosum, V. corymbosum, V. crassifolium, V. darrowii, V. deliciosum, V. erythrocarpum, V. hirsutum, V. macrocarpon, V. membranaceum, V. myrsinites, V. myrtilloides, V. myrtillus, V. ovalifolium, V. oxycoccos, V. pallidum, V. parvifolium, V. scoparium, V. stamineum, V. tenellum, V. uliginosum, V. vitis-idaea
Synonyms Cyanococcus canadensis, V. angustifolium var. myrtilloides, V. canadense V. ovatum var. saporosum
Name authority Michaux: Fl. Bor.-Amer. 1: 234. 1803 , Pursh: Fl. Amer. Sept. 1: 290. 1813 ,
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