Vaccinium pallidum
Vaccinium scoparium
Blue Ridge blueberry, Blue Ridge or late low-bush blueberry, hillside blueberry, lowbush blueberry
grouse whortleberry, grouseberry, little-leaf huckleberry
persistent.
blades pale green abaxially, elliptic, lanceolate, or ovate-lanceolate, 7–11 × 4–6 mm, margins finely serrulate, surfaces glabrous.
terminal, racemes, on lateral twigs, on previous year’s shoots or older woody stems.
articulated with calyx tube.
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.
calyx pale green, lobes vestigial, glabrous;
corolla pink, globose to urceolate, 3–4 × 3–4 mm, thin, glaucous;
filaments glabrous.
[4-], 5-, [pseudo 8-, or pseudo 10]-locular.
red, ± translucent, or bluish purple, 4–6 mm diam.
10–25, (ca. 1 mm).
ca. 1 mm.
Vaccinium pallidum
Vaccinium scoparium
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.)
The soft, tart, bright red berries of Vaccinium scoparium, to 6 mm diameter, have fair to good flavor and were gathered and eaten raw by the Kootenay, Okanogan, Shuswap, and other Indian tribes. Harvesting was probably done using wooden or fish-bone combs. Small fruit size, low yields, and difficult harvesting make commercial prospects for V. scoparium questionable.
(Discussion copyrighted by Flora of North America; reprinted with permission.)
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