Vaccinium boreale

Life-forms

Classification System: APG IV

Superregnum: Eukaryota
Regnum: Plantae
Cladus: Angiosperms
Cladus: Eudicots
Cladus: Core eudicots
Cladus: Asterids
Ordo: Ericales

Familia: Ericaceae
Subfamilia: Vaccinioideae
Tribus: Vaccinieae
Genus: Vaccinium
Sectio: V. sect. Cyanococcus
Species: Vaccinium boreale
Name

Vaccinium boreale I.V.Hall & Aalders
References

American Journal of Botany. Lancaster, PA 48:200. 1961
USDA, ARS, National Genetic Resources Program. Germplasm Resources Information Network - (GRIN) [Online Database]. [1]

Vernacular names
English: northern blueberry

Vaccinium boreale, common name northern blueberry, sweet hurts or (in French) bleuet boréal, is a plant species native to the northeastern United States and eastern Canada.[1] It has been reported from Québec, New Brunswick, Nova Scotia, Newfoundland & Labrador, Maine, New Hampshire, Vermont, and New York State. It grows in tundra (arctic or alpine), rocky uplands and in open conifer forests at elevations up to 2,000 metres (6,600 ft).[2][3][4]

Vaccinium boreale is a small shrub up to 9 centimetres (3+1⁄2 in) tall - it is a lowbush blueberry[5] - forming dense colonies of many individuals. Twigs are green, angled, with lines of hairs. Leaves are deciduous, narrowly elliptic, up to 21 millimetres (13⁄16 in) long, with teeth along the margins. Flowers are white, up to 4 millimetres (5⁄32 in) long. Berries are blue, up to 5 millimetres (13⁄64 in) across.[6][7][8]
References

"Lady Bird Johnson Wildflower Center - The University of Texas at Austin". www.wildflower.org.
"Vaccinium boreale in Flora of North America @ efloras.org". www.efloras.org.
Vander Kloet, S. P. 1977. The taxonomic status of Vaccinium boreale. Canadian Journal of Botany 55: 281-288.
Vander Kloet, S. P. 1988. The Genus Vaccinium in North America. Ottawa. Agriculture Canada, Research Branch, Publication number 1828.
Rodriguez-Saona, Cesar; Vincent, Charles; Isaacs, Rufus (2019-01-07). "Blueberry IPM: Past Successes and Future Challenges". Annual Review of Entomology. Annual Reviews. 64 (1): 95–114. doi:10.1146/annurev-ento-011118-112147. ISSN 0066-4170.
Hall, Ivan Victor, & Aalders, Lewis Eldon. 1961. American Journal of Botany 48(3): 200–201, f. 1 [map].
Trehane, J. 2004. Blueberries, Cranberries, and Other Vacciniums. Portland, Maine.
Gleason, H. A. & A.J. Cronquist. 1991. Manual of the Vascular Plants of Northeastern United States and Adjacent Canada (ed. 2) i–910. New York Botanical Garden, Bronx.