Vaccinium vitis-idaea
Vaccinium sect. Vitis-idaea
airelle vigne-d'ida, cowberry, foxberry, lingonberry, mountain cranberry, northern mountain cranberry, partridgeberry
airelle vigne-d'ida, cowberry, foxberry, lingonberry, mountain cranberry, northern mountain cranberry, partridgeberry
blades pale and glandular abaxially, bright green adaxially, elliptic to obovate, 5–18 × 3–9 mm, glaucous-coriaceous, margins entire, slightly revolute.
persistent.
terminal, racemes, 2–3-flowered, sometimes flowers solitary, borne on previous year’s growth.
4–6 mm.
articulated with calyx tube.
corolla pinkish white, 3–5 mm;
filaments puberulent.
(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.
red, 8–10 mm diam. 2n = 24.
4-locular.
ca. 10–20.
Vaccinium vitis-idaea
Vaccinium sect. Vitis-idaea
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.)
Species 1.
(Discussion copyrighted by Flora of North America; reprinted with permission.)
BC
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PNW Herbaria
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