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Vaccinium cespitosum is a low-lying plant rarely reaching half a meter (1.5 feet) in height which forms a carpet-like stand in rocky mountainous meadows. The dwarf bilberry foliage is reddish-green to green and the flowers are tiny urn-shaped light pink cups less than a centimeter (<0.4 inches) wide. [3] It has many somewhat angled branches.
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Vaccinium / v æ k ˈ s ɪ n i ə m / [3] is a common and widespread genus of shrubs or dwarf shrubs in the heath family (Ericaceae). The fruits of many species are eaten by humans and some are of commercial importance, including the cranberry, blueberry, bilberry (whortleberry), lingonberry (cowberry), and huckleberry.
The lowbush blueberry is native to central and eastern Canada (from Manitoba to Newfoundland) as well as north-central and eastern United States [8] (growing as far south as the Great Smoky Mountains and west to the Great Lakes region). [9] [10] In its native habitat the plant grows in open conifer woods, old fields, and sandy or rocky balds. [11]
Vaccinium darrowii is an evergreen shrub growing to 30–120 cm (1–4 ft) tall, with small, simple ovoid-acute leaves10–15 millimetres (3 ⁄ 8 – 5 ⁄ 8 in) long and in non-hybrid forms are a light blue-green color on the base of the plant and a light pink color at the tips of the branches. The flowers are white, bell-shaped, 4–8 mm long.
Vaccinium tenellum, the small black blueberry is a plant species native to the southeastern United States from southeastern Mississippi to northern Florida to southern Virginia. It grows in forests and in shrubby areas at elevations up to 200 m. [2] Vaccinium tenellum is a deciduous shrub up to 80 cm tall, often forming large colonies. Leaves ...
[1] [2] The plant has green stems that turn into woody growth as the stems age. [2] The leaves are ovaloid, green, and about 2.5–7.5 centimetres (1–3 in) long. [2] The flowers are whitish-pink and bell-shaped. The fruit is a dark blue berry with a glaucous bloom on one end. [2]
Vaccinium myrtilloides is a low spreading deciduous shrub growing up to 50 centimetres (20 in) tall, [4] often spreading to form small thickets. Young stems have stiff dense bristly hairs. The leaves are 1.5–6.5 cm (1 ⁄ 2 – 2 + 1 ⁄ 2 in) long, green, [4] paler underneath with velvety hairs.