| Vaccinium ovalifolium Sm. | |||
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| Family | Ericaceae — APG family: Ericaceae | ||
| Synonyms | Vaccinium chamissonis Bong. | ||
| Description | Shrubs 50-100 cm tall, lowering early, when leaves are half expanded; twigs con- spicuously angled; leaves ovate-elliptic to obovate, entire or mostly with few glandu- lar teeth near base; flowers single in axils; pedicels short, recurved in fruit, not thickened toward apex; corolla pinkish, subglobose; style included; berry globose, blue-black. | ||
| Ecology | Woods. Described from the west coast of North America. Transitions to V. alaskensis seem to occur. | ||
| Taxonomy notes | Broken line on circumpolar map indicates range of the closely related V. axillare Nakai and V. shikokianum Nakai (Shikoku Island). | ||
| Uses | The berry is edible, with good 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.