| Vaccinium vitis-idaea subsp. minus (Lodd.) Hult. | |||
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| Family | Ericaceae — APG family: Ericaceae | ||
| Synonyms | Vaccinium vitis-idaea var. minus Lodd., Rhodococcum minus (Lodd.) Avrorin. | ||
| Common name | lingonberry | ||
| Description | Low, creeping dwarf shrub with evergreen, coriaceous, lustrous, obovate leaves, reflexed in margin and with dark dots beneath; flowers in terminal clusters; corolla pink; berry red. | ||
| Ecology | Acid soil, common in the mountains to at least 1,200 meters. V. vitis-idaea de- scribed from northern Europe, subsp. minus from northern Europe and North America. | ||
| Taxonomy notes | Broken line on circumpolar map indicates range of subsp. vitis-idaéa. | ||
| Uses | The berry is edible and makes an excellent jam. A tasty beverage can also be prepared from the berries. |
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.