| Vaccinium uliginosum subsp. alpinum (Bigel.) Hult. | |||
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| Family | Ericaceae — APG family: Ericaceae | ||
| Synonyms | Vaccinium uliginosum var. alpinum Bigel. | ||
| Common name | alpine blueberry | ||
| Description | Depressed or ascending, strongly branched, dwarf shrub, with terete twigs; leaves coriaceous, entire, oblong, obovate or rounded, dull green above, paler and distinctly nerved beneath; corolla urceolate, white or pinkish; berry dark blue. | ||
| Ecology | Heaths and bogs. V. uliginosum described from Sweden, subsp. alpinum from Massachusetts. | ||
| Taxonomy notes | Var. salicinum (Cham.) Hult. (V. salicinum Cham.), which differs in having very narrow, acute leaves (about 15 X 5 mm), occurs rarely, in scattered localities. Dotted line on circumpolar map indicates southern boundary of subsp. uligino- sum. | ||
| Uses | Berry edible, sweet, with good flavor; makes excellent jam and is used for blue- berry pie. |
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.