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grouse whortleberry, grouseberry, little-leaf huckleberry
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creeping blueberry
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| Plants forming extensive colonies, 0.7–2 dm, rhizomatous; twigs green, angled, glabrous; ultimate branches compact, often forming broomlike clumps or tufts. |
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 abaxially, elliptic, lanceolate, or ovate-lanceolate, 7–11 × 4–6 mm, margins finely serrulate, surfaces glabrous. |
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, lobes vestigial, glabrous; corolla pink, globose to urceolate, 3–4 × 3–4 mm, thin, glaucous; filaments glabrous. |
calyx lobes distinct; corolla usually white, 3–5 mm; filaments ciliate. |
red, ± translucent, or bluish purple, 4–6 mm diam. |
black, 6–8 mm diam., insipid. |
ca. 1 mm. |
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| Flowering early-mid summer. |
Flowering late spring. |
| Alpine and subalpine meadows, heaths, talus slopes |
Coastal plain, open pine flatwoods, pine barrens, pocosin ecotones and associated disturbed areas, road cuts, fire trails, mown roadsides |
| 700-3000 m (2300-9800 ft) |
0-200 m (0-700 ft) |
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CA; CO; ID; MT; NM; NV; OR; SD; UT; WA; WY; AB; BC
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GA; NC; SC; VA
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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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| FNA vol. 8, p. 522. |
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. ovalifolium, V. ovatum, V. oxycoccos, V. pallidum, V. parvifolium, 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. myrtillus var. microphyllum, V. erythrococcum |
Herpothamnus crassifolius, V. crassifolium subsp. sempervirens, V. sempervirens |
| Leiberg ex Coville: Contr. U.S. Natl. Herb. 5: 103. 1897 , |
Andrews: Bot. Repos. 2: plate 105. (1800) |
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BC, 
CA, 
OR, 
WA
Flora NW, 
PNW Herbaria, 
WildflowerSearch
iNaturalist (observations)
USDA Plants Database
