Vaccinium myrtilloides Michx.
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Authority
Gleason, Henry A. & Cronquist, Arthur J. 1991. Manual of vascular plants of northeastern United States and adjacent Canada. lxxv + 910 pp.
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Family
Ericaceae
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Scientific Name
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Description
Species Description - Colonial shrubs 2–5 dm; bud-scales sharply acute; lvs thin and soft, elliptic to lance-elliptic, 1–3(–4) cm, half or a third as wide, entire, softly hairy beneath, not glaucous; cor broadly cylindric, 4–5 mm, white or tinged with pink; fr blue- glaucous, 4–7 mm; 2n=24. Moist or dry soil and bogs; Lab. to B.C., s. to Pa., Ind., ne. Io., and Minn., and in the mts. to Va. and W.Va. May–July. (V. canadense; Cyanococcus c.)
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Common Names
velvetleaf-blueberry