Vaccinium pallidum
Vaccinium vitis-idaea
Blue Ridge blueberry, Blue Ridge or late low-bush blueberry, hillside blueberry, lowbush blueberry
airelle vigne-d'ida, cowberry, foxberry, lingonberry, mountain cranberry, northern mountain cranberry, partridgeberry
persistent.
blades pale and glandular abaxially, bright green adaxially, elliptic to obovate, 5–18 × 3–9 mm, glaucous-coriaceous, margins entire, slightly revolute.
terminal, racemes, on lateral twigs, on previous year’s shoots or older woody stems.
articulated with calyx tube.
4–6 mm.
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.
corolla pinkish white, 3–5 mm;
filaments puberulent.
[4-], 5-, [pseudo 8-, or pseudo 10]-locular.
red, 8–10 mm diam. 2n = 24.
10–25, (ca. 1 mm).
Vaccinium pallidum
Vaccinium vitis-idaea
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 distribution of Vaccinium vitis-idaea in North America extends from northwestern Greenland at 77° north latitude, south to Connecticut at 42° north latitude, and from 45° west longitude (southern tip of Greenland) west to 170° west longitude (Aleutian Islands); it is rare in Connecticut (not collected since the late 1800s), Massachusetts, Vermont, and Wisconsin. This species has been erroneously reported from New York; it hybridizes with V. myrtillus in northern Europe, producing V. ×intermedium Ruthe. The hybrid might be anticipated in North America, but the two species are not known to occur together anywhere in the flora area.
(Discussion copyrighted by Flora of North America; reprinted with permission.)
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