Oxycoccus microcarpus Turcz.
 
FamilyEricaceae — APG family: Ericaceae
SynonymsVaccinium oxycoccus var. microcarpus (Turcz.) Fedtsch. & Flerov.
DescriptionStem filiform, prostrate, rooting; young shoots glabrous; leaves 4-5 mm long, triangular-ovate, dark green above, glaucous below, strongly revolute in margin; pedicels and calyx glabrous; bracts mostly below middle of scape; flowers mostly single, deep pink; filaments often pubescent on outside; fruit red, 5-10 mm in diameter.
EcologyPeat bogs; in McKinley Park to 1,200 meters. Described from European Russia, Transbaikalia, and Alaska.
UsesThe fruit is edible and makes a tasty jam.
Hultén's Flora About

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.