Vaccinium cespitosum

Plants forming dense colonies, 0.3–6 dm, superficially rhizomatous; twigs yellow-green, reddish green, or reddish-brown, terete to somewhat angled, finely puberulent or, rarely, glabrous. Leaf-blades green, usually oblanceolate, sometimes obovate or narrowly elliptic, 10–30 × 3–12 mm, margins usually serrulate from apex to at least mid-blade, surfaces usually glandular abaxially, usually glabrous adaxially. Flowers: calyx pale green, lobes vestigial, glabrous; corolla white, white with pink striping, or pink, cylindric-urceolate to globose, 4–7 × 3–5 mm, thin, glaucous; filaments glabrous. Berries usually blue, glaucous, rarely dull black, 5–9 mm diam. Seeds ca. 1 mm. 2n = 24.

Phenology: Flowering late spring-mid summer.
Habitat: Open, usually dry habitats, from lowland to subalpine areas
Elevation: 0-4500 m

Alta., B.C., Man., N.B., Nfld. and Labr., N.W.T., N.S., Nunavut, Ont., Que., Sask., Yukon, Alaska, Calif., Colo., Idaho, Maine, Mich., Minn., Mont., N.H., N.Mex., N.Y., Oreg., Vt., Wash., Wis., Wyo., Mexico (Chihuahua), Mexico (Durango), Mexico (Hidalgo), Central America (Guatemala)

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Lower Taxa