| Vaccinium membranaceum Dougl. | |||
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| Family | Ericaceae — APG family: Ericaceae | ||
| Description | Shrub up to 2 meters tall, with angled twigs; leaves ovate to oblong-ovate or el- liptic-obovate, mostly somewhat acute, 2-5 cm long, finely glandular, serrate-cre- nate to extreme tip; flowers single in axils; pedicels recurved in flower; flowers yellowish-pink; corolla ovoid to urceolate; berry globose, purple to bluish-black. | ||
| Ecology | Woods. Described from the northwest coast of North America. | ||
| Uses | The berries are aromatic, and of a delicious flavor. |
This is a digital representation of Eric Hultén’s ‘Flora of Alaska and Neighboring Territories: A Manual of the Vascular Plants’, which was published by Stanford University Press in 1968. The book was digitized by C. Webb (at UAMN) as part of the Flora of Alaska project, with funding by the US NSF (Grant 1759964 to Ickert-Bond & Webb), and with permission of Stanford University Press. Data and images © 1968 Board of Trustees of the Leland Stanford Jr. Univ. Usage licence: Creative Commons BY-NC-SA 4.0. NB: You may find OCR errors; please refer to the hard-copy if in doubt.