Plants of USA and Canada

Scientific or common name:

Vaccinium myrtilloides Michx.


ERICACEAE Family selection - Heath family (Angiosperms - Flowering plants)

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Name: Vaccinium myrtilloides Michx. Taxon selection
Nomencl. ref.: Fl. Bor.-Amer. (Michaux) 1: 234. 1803 [19 Mar 1803]
Rank: species

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Common names

US name U.S. name: Velvetleaf huckleberry
en English name: Canada blueberry
English name: sourtop
French name: bleuet fausse-myrtille

Grown habit: Subshrub, Shrub
Duration: Perennial
 

Synonyms:
= Cyanococcus canadensis (Kalm ex A. Rich.) Rydb.
= Vaccinium angustifolium Aiton var. myrtilloides (Michx.) House
= Vaccinium canadense Kalm ex A. Rich.



TAXONOMY

Kingdom: Plantae
Subkingdom: Tracheobionta
Superdivision: Spermatophyta
Division: Magnoliophyta
Class: Magnoliopsida
Subclass: Dilleniidae
Order: Ericales
Family: Ericaceae
Genus: Vaccinium
Species:


Page counter: 544 ( AVG: 223.13 / 292.323 )



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Vaccinium myrtilloides
Vaccinium myrtilloides
USDA-NRCS PLANTS Database / Britton, N.L., and A. Brown. 1913. An illustrated flora of the northern United States, Canada and the British Possessions. Vol. 2: 701.


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Distribution in USA and Canada (*)
USA (CT, IA, IL, IN, MA, MD, ME, MI, MN, MT, NC, NH, NY, OH, PA, VA, VT, WA, WI, WV), CAN (AB, BC, LB, MB, NB, NS, NT, ON, PE, QC, SK)

Distributional map for Vaccinium myrtilloides Michx.
Map for Vaccinium myrtilloides Michx.
(*) USDA, NRCS. 2009. The PLANTS Database (http://plants.usda.gov, 28 August 2009). National Plant Data Center, Baton Rouge, LA 70874-4490 USA



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More species:
1) Vaccinium myrtillus L. [1479]
2) Vaccinium myrtillus L. ssp. oreophilum (Rydb.) A. Löve & D. Löve & Kapoor [178]
3) Vaccinium neglectum (Small) Fernald [134]
4) Vaccinium nitidum Andrews [90]
5) Vaccinium oreophilum Rydb. [92]
6) Vaccinium oxycoccos L. [1509]
7) Vaccinium oxycoccos L. var. ovalifolium Michx. [98]
8) Vaccinium sempervirens Rayner & L.F. Hend. [91]
9) Vaccinium stamineum L. var. sericeum C. Mohr [155]
10) Vaccinium uliginosum L. ssp. pubescens (Wormsk. ex Hornem.) S.B. Young [140]

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