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Vaccinium boreale I.V. Hall & Aalders  
Family: Ericaceae
Northern Blueberry
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Sam P. Vander Kloet in Flora of North America (vol. 8)
Plants forming small, dense colonies, 0.1-0.9 dm, (super-ficially rhizomatous); twigs green, (delicate), angled, (intri-cately branched), hairy in lines. Leaves deciduous; blade bright green, narrowly elliptic, 8-21 × 2-6 mm, membranous, margins sharply, uniformly serrate, surfaces usually glabrous, eglandular abaxially. Flowers: calyx green, glaucous, glabrous (sometimes ciliate); corolla white to greenish white, cylindric, 3-4 mm; filaments ciliate. Berries blue, glaucous, 3-5 mm diam., glabrous. Seeds 10-30, ca. 1.1 mm. 2n = 24. Flowering late spring-early summer. Headlands, open, rocky uplands, alpine heaths and meadows, forest-tundra. 0-2000 m; N.B., Nfld. and Labr., N.S., Que.; Maine, N.H., N.Y., Vt.
Vascular plants of NE US and adjacent Canada
Dwarf, rarely to 1 dm, with superficial rhizomes, forming small, dense colonies as part of the ground-level vegetation; lvs deciduous, narrowly elliptic, 1-2 cm נ2-6 mm, sharply serrulate, green and glabrous or nearly so; cal and pedicel glaucous; cor cylindric, 3-4 mm, white; fr blue-glaucous, 3-5 mm; 2n=24. Alpine meadows and exposed, rocky sites; Nf., Lab., and Que., s. to mt.-tops of Me., n. N.H., n. Vt., and n. N.Y. June, July.

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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