Flora of North America species comparison

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Vaccinium sect. Vitis-idaea

airelle vigne-d'ida, cowberry, foxberry, lingonberry, mountain cranberry, northern mountain cranberry, partridgeberry
Habit Subshrubs, procumbent to ascending, 0.1–3.5 dm, rhizomatous, (floral buds prominent, pseudo terminal, rotund).
Leaves

persistent.
Inflorescences

terminal, racemes, 2–3-flowered, sometimes flowers solitary, borne on previous year’s growth.
Pedicels

articulated with calyx tube.
Flowers

(short-pedicellate);

sepals 4;

petals 4(–5), connate ca. 3/4 their lengths, corolla ± campanulate, (lobes not reflexed);

stamens 8, included;

anthers without awns, tubules 0.8–1.4 mm, with terminal pores.
Berries

4-locular.
Seeds

ca. 10–20.

Vaccinium sect. Vitis-idaea
Distribution
North America; Eurasia; circumboreal
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Discussion

Species 1.

(Discussion copyrighted by Flora of North America; reprinted with permission.)
Source FNA vol. 8, p. 520.
Parent taxa Ericaceae > subfam. Vaccinioideae > Vaccinium
Subordinate taxa
Name authority W. D. J. Koch: Syn. Fl. Germ. Helv., 474. (1837)
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