Vaccinium myrtillus
Vaccinium pallidum
bilberry, dwarf bilberry, dwarf blueberry, low bilberry, low blueberry, myrtle blueberry, whortleberry
Blue Ridge blueberry, Blue Ridge or late low-bush blueberry, hillside blueberry, lowbush blueberry
blades bright green, broadly elliptic or ovate, 19–27 × 7–11 mm, margins sharply serrate, surfaces laxly glandular abaxially.
persistent.
terminal, racemes, on lateral twigs, on previous year’s shoots or older woody stems.
articulated with calyx tube.
calyx green, lobes ± recurved (or absent and margins of tube sinuate), deltate, 0.4–0.6 mm, glabrous;
corolla pink, cream, or greenish white, globose, 3–5 × 5–7 mm, thin, glaucous;
filaments glabrous.
sepals 5;
petals 4–5, connate for nearly their entire lengths, corolla cylindric or urceolate;
stamens 10, included;
anthers ± without awns, tubules 1–1.5 mm, with terminal pores.
purple-black or bluish black, rarely reddish or red, 7–9 mm diam.
[4-], 5-, [pseudo 8-, or pseudo 10]-locular.
ca. 1 mm.
10–25, (ca. 1 mm).
= 24, 48.
Vaccinium myrtillus
Vaccinium pallidum
Vaccinium myrtillus fruits are popular in Europe and are known to possess antioxidants and other compounds beneficial to vascular health. Berries in Europe are extensively harvested from wild stands. In North America, the fruits were used by the Kootenai, Carrier, Shuswap, and other native tribes. The small plant and fruit sizes create challenges for commercialization in North America.
(Discussion copyrighted by Flora of North America; reprinted with permission.)
The flowers of Vaccinium pallidum are visited primarily by Andrena carlini Cockerell and Bombus spp. This species occasionally hybridizes with V. angustifolium, yielding V. ×dobbinii Burnham.
(Discussion copyrighted by Flora of North America; reprinted with permission.)
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