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airelle à feuilles ovées, Alaska blueberry, early blueberry, oval-leaf blueberry, oval-leaf huckleberry
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creeping blueberry
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| Plants crown-forming, clumped, suckering when disturbed, rarely forming extensive colonies, 3–40 dm, not rhizomatous; twigs yellow-green or golden brown, glaucous, usually terete, sometimes somewhat angled, glabrous, sometimes hairy in lines. |
Plants extensively mat-forming (often by layering), with erect branches from lateral buds, rooting and/or swelling into woody burls at nodes; twigs of current year reddish green, terete, finely hairy, not verrucose. |
blades pale green or glaucous abaxially, slightly darker pale green adaxially, ovate to elliptic, rarely obovate, 25–39 × 16–20 mm, margins entire to obscurely serrate, abaxial surface glabrous, eglandular (sometimes hairy or glandular along midvein), adaxial surface usually glabrous (sometimes hairy and/or glandular). |
blades dark green, elliptic to obovate, (10–)12–15(–39) × (4–)5–7(–24) mm, coriaceous, margins ± entire, surfaces glabrescent. |
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0.1–0.3 cm. |
calyx pale green or glaucous, lobes vestigial or absent, glabrous; corolla pink, bronze-pink, or greenish white, globose, sometimes urceolate, 5–7 × 4–5 mm, thin, glaucous; filaments glabrous or pilose basally. |
calyx lobes distinct; corolla usually white, 3–5 mm; filaments ciliate. |
blue, dull purplish black, or black, sometimes glaucous, 8–10 mm diam. |
black, 6–8 mm diam., insipid. |
ca. 1 mm. |
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= 24, 48. |
= 24. |
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| Flowering spring-mid summer(-late summer). |
Flowering late spring. |
| Moist or mesic coniferous woods, transitional habitats adjacent to these coniferous stands, cut-over coniferous woods, verges of road cuts, margins of coniferous woods, peaty slopes |
Coastal plain, open pine flatwoods, pine barrens, pocosin ecotones and associated disturbed areas, road cuts, fire trails, mown roadsides |
| 0-2100 m (0-6900 ft) |
0-200 m (0-700 ft) |
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AK; ID; MI; OR; SD; WA; AB; BC; NF; NS; ON; QC; YT; e Asia (c Japan, Kamchatka)
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GA; NC; SC; VA
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| FNA vol. 8, p. 524. |
FNA vol. 8, p. 525. |
| Ericaceae > subfam. Vaccinioideae > Vaccinium > sect. Myrtillus |
Ericaceae > subfam. Vaccinioideae > Vaccinium > sect. Herpothamnus |
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. 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. darrowii, V. deliciosum, V. erythrocarpum, V. hirsutum, V. macrocarpon, V. membranaceum, V. myrsinites, V. myrtilloides, V. myrtillus, V. ovalifolium, V. ovatum, V. oxycoccos, V. pallidum, V. parvifolium, V. scoparium, V. stamineum, V. tenellum, V. uliginosum, V. vitis-idaea |
| V. alaskaense |
Herpothamnus crassifolius, V. crassifolium subsp. sempervirens, V. sempervirens |
| Smith: in A. Rees, Cycl. 36: Vaccinium no. 2. (1817) |
Andrews: Bot. Repos. 2: plate 105. (1800) |
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BC, 
OR, 
WA
Flora NW, 
MI Flora, 
PNW Herbaria
WildflowerSearch
iNaturalist (observations)
USDA Plants Database
