familyEricaceae
subfamilyEricaceae subfam. Vaccinioideae
genusVaccinium
sectionVaccinium sect. Cyanococcus
speciesVaccinium boreale
Vaccinium boreale
Amer. J. Bot. 48: 200. 1961 ,.
Common names: Northern blueberry sweet hurts bleuet boréal
Endemic
Plants forming small, dense colonies, 0.1–0.9 dm, (superficially rhizomatous); twigs green, (delicate), angled, (intricately branched), hairy in lines. Leaves deciduous; blade bright green, narrowly elliptic, 8–21 × 2–6 mm, membranous, margins sharply, uniformly serrate, surfaces usually glabrous, eglandular abaxially. Flowers: calyx green, glaucous, glabrous (sometimes ciliate); corolla white to greenish white, cylindric, 3–4 mm; filaments ciliate. Berries blue, glaucous, 3–5 mm diam., glabrous. Seeds 10–30, ca. 1.1 mm. 2n = 24.
Phenology: Flowering late spring–early summer.
Habitat: Headlands, open, rocky uplands, alpine heaths and meadows, forest-tundra. 0-2000 m
Distribution
N.B., Nfld. and Labr., N.S., Que., Maine, N.H., N.Y., Vt.
Discussion
Selected References
None.
Lower Taxa
None.
"entire" is not a number.
... more about "Vaccinium boreale"
absent +
dehiscent +
inverted +
not flaky +
blue +
elliptic +
bright green +
ovate;oblong-lanceolate or spatulate +
membranous +
much shorter +
green +
dense +
small +
aromatic +
absent +
deciduous +
absent +
rotate to crateriform campanulate cylindric globose or urceolate +
cylindric +
fascicles +
straight +
undifferentiated +
fusiform +
minute +
cellular +
abundant +
fleshy +
straight +
distinct +
symmetric +
pendulous +
baccate +
ovoid;globose +
fleshy +
absent +
simple +
deciduous +
cauline +
usually much shorter +
shorter to longer +
serrate +
,;plane +
revolute +
absent +
furrowed +
axile +
inferior +
lobed +
anatropous +
fascicles +
articulated +
absent +
red;cream;pink bronze or green +
connate +
absent +
reduced +
not sticky +
absent +
4-5-carpellate +
solid +
Amer. J. Bot. +
1846 +
2-10-flowered +
winged +
tan;yellowish-brown or brown +
distinct +
10;25 +
ellipsoid +
connate +
absent +
Endemic +
included +
capitate +
5-lobed +
absent +
hollow +
straight +
declinate +
eglandular +
glabrous +
Vaccinium boreale +
Vaccinium sect. Cyanococcus +
species +
reticulate +
thin +
green +
hairy +
angled +
rhizomatous +
absent +
multicellular-hairy +