Vaccinium vitis-idaea |
Vaccinium ovatum |
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airelle vigne-d'ida, cowberry, foxberry, lingonberry, mountain cranberry, northern mountain cranberry, partridgeberry |
California huckleberry, evergreen huckelberry, evergreen huckleberry, winter huckleberry |
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Habit | Plants densely colonial, frequently mat-forming; twigs of previous year green, terete, puberulent, not verrucose. | Plants clump- or crown-forming; twigs ± terete, pilose. |
Leaf | blades pale and glandular abaxially, bright green adaxially, elliptic to obovate, 5–18 × 3–9 mm, glaucous-coriaceous, margins entire, slightly revolute. |
blades pale green abaxially, lustrous dark green adaxially, narrowly ovate, 21–29 × 8–12 mm, coriaceous, margins sharply serrate, surfaces glandular abaxially. |
Pedicels | 4–6 mm. |
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Flowers | corolla pinkish white, 3–5 mm; filaments puberulent. |
corolla pinkish, 3–5 mm; filaments hairy. |
Berries | red, 8–10 mm diam. 2n = 24. |
black or blue, 6–8 mm diam. 2n = 24. |
Vaccinium vitis-idaea |
Vaccinium ovatum |
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Phenology | Flowering late spring–early summer. | Flowering early spring-mid summer. |
Habitat | Boreal taiga in jack-pine stands, muskegs, raised bogs, dry, rocky barrens, lichen woodlands, exposed habitats, heaths, high moors, headlands, tundras, cliffs, mountain summits | Edges of coniferous forests, also epiphytic on trunks of redwoods |
Elevation | 0-1800 m (0-5900 ft) | 0-30 m (0-100 ft) |
Distribution |
AK; CT; MA; ME; MI; MN; NH; VT; WI; AB; BC; MB; NB; NL; NS; NT; NU; ON; PE; QC; SK; YT; SPM; Greenland; n Eurasia; circumboreal
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CA; OR; WA; BC
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Discussion | 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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Source | FNA vol. 8, p. 520. | FNA vol. 8, p. 530. |
Parent taxa | Ericaceae > subfam. Vaccinioideae > Vaccinium > sect. Vitis-idaea | Ericaceae > subfam. Vaccinioideae > Vaccinium > sect. Pyxothamnus |
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Synonyms | V. vitis-idaea subsp. minus, V. vitis-idaea var. minus | V. ovatum var. saporosum |
Name authority | Linnaeus: Sp. Pl. 1: 351. (1753) | Pursh: Fl. Amer. Sept. 1: 290. 1813 , |
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