Vaccinium caespitosum Michx. | |||
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Family | Ericaceae — APG family: Ericaceae | ||
Common name | dwarf blueberry | ||
Description | Low, tufted shrub with terete branches; leaves membranaceous, shiny green on both sides, cuneate-oblanceolate to obovate, highly variable in form, uniformly and densely serrate, finely glandular below; flowers single; corolla tubular-urceolate, longer than broad, pink; berries blue, with pale bloom. | ||
Ecology | Wet meadows; in the mountains to at least 1,700 meters. Described from North America. The berries are sweet and edible. | ||
Taxonomy notes | Var. paludicola (Camp) Hult. (V. paludicola Camp), taller and with larger leaves and somewhat angled branches, occurs in the Prince William Sound area. |
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.