Vaccinium uliginosum |
Vaccinium ovatum |
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airelle des marécages, alpine blueberry, blueberry, bog bilberry, bog blueberry |
California huckleberry, evergreen huckelberry, evergreen huckleberry, winter huckleberry |
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Habit | Plants forming dense mats or open, extensive colonies; twigs of current season pale green, terete, glabrous or faintly puberulent, not verrucose. | Plants clump- or crown-forming; twigs ± terete, pilose. |
Leaf | blades usually glaucous abaxially, green to glaucous adaxially, orbiculate, ovate, or obovate to narrowly elliptic, 8–14 × 3–7 mm, membranous, margins entire, surfaces often faintly puberulent, sometimes hairy throughout. |
blades pale green abaxially, lustrous dark green adaxially, narrowly ovate, 21–29 × 8–12 mm, coriaceous, margins sharply serrate, surfaces glandular abaxially. |
Flowers | sepals usually distinct; corolla white to pink, 3–4(–5) mm, lobes 0.3–0.4 mm; filaments glabrous. |
corolla pinkish, 3–5 mm; filaments hairy. |
Berries | blue, 6–8 mm diam., glaucous. |
black or blue, 6–8 mm diam. 2n = 24. |
2n | = 24, 48, 72. |
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Vaccinium uliginosum |
Vaccinium ovatum |
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Phenology | Flowering Jun–Jul. | Flowering early spring-mid summer. |
Habitat | Wet or dry acidic sites in boreal taiga, tundras, and alpine thickets and krummholz | Edges of coniferous forests, also epiphytic on trunks of redwoods |
Elevation | 0-2200 m (0-7200 ft) | 0-30 m (0-100 ft) |
Distribution |
AK; CA; ID; ME; MI; MN; MT; NH; NV; NY; OR; UT; VT; WA; WY; AB; BC; MB; NB; NF; NS; NT; NU; ON; PE; QC; SK; YT; SPM; Greenland; n Eurasia
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CA; OR; WA; BC
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Discussion | Vaccinium uliginosum is transcontinental in North America between 60° and 70° north latitude; farther north it is rare, especially in the Queen Elizabeth Islands. To the southwest, it is found as far as northern California and northwestern Utah. The summits of the White Mountains of New Hampshire form its southernmost limit in eastern North America. This wide-ranging plant shows considerable variation, notably in floral morphology. Subspecies have been recognized (cf. S. B. Young 1970); a review of morphological variation by H. J. Warr (1981) did not support the distinctiveness of infraspecific taxa. (Discussion copyrighted by Flora of North America; reprinted with permission.) |
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Source | FNA vol. 8, p. 518. | FNA vol. 8, p. 530. |
Parent taxa | Ericaceae > subfam. Vaccinioideae > Vaccinium > sect. Vaccinium | Ericaceae > subfam. Vaccinioideae > Vaccinium > sect. Pyxothamnus |
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Synonyms | V. gaultherioides, V. occidentale, V. uliginosum subsp. alpinum, V. uliginosum var. alpinum, V. uliginosum subsp. gaultherioides, V. uliginosum subsp. microphyllum, V. uliginosum subsp. occidentale, V. uliginosum var. occidentale, V. uliginosum subsp. pedris, V. uliginosum subsp. pubescens, V. uliginosum var. salicinum | V. ovatum var. saporosum |
Name authority | Linnaeus: Sp. Pl. 1: 350. 1753 , | Pursh: Fl. Amer. Sept. 1: 290. 1813 , |
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