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Vaccinium vitis-idaea is a small evergreen shrub in the heath family, Ericaceae. It is known colloquially as the lingonberry , partridgeberry , [ a ] foxberry , mountain cranberry , or cowberry . It is native to boreal forest and Arctic tundra throughout the Northern Hemisphere.
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.
Vaccinium vitis-idaea (in Newfoundland and Labrador), better known as lingonberry Index of plants with the same common name This page is an index of articles on plant species (or higher taxonomic groups) with the same common name ( vernacular name).
Vaccinium myrtillus is a small deciduous shrub that grows 10–51 centimetres (4–20 in) tall, heavily branched with upright, angular to narrow winged, green-colored branches that are glabrous.
Whortleberry may refer to the berries of several plants of genus Vaccinium: Vaccinium myrtillus, European bilberry or blue whortleberry; Vaccinium vitis-idaea, lingonberry or red whortleberry; Vaccinium uliginosum, bog whortleberry/bilberry
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The name "bilberry" appears to have a Scandinavian origin, possibly from as early as 1577, being similar to the Danish word bølle for whortleberry with the addition of "berry". [1] In Scandinavian languages, terms for bilberries have names that carry the meaning "blueberry": e.g. blåbär in Swedish and blåbær in Danish and Norwegian.