Northern Blueberry

Vaccinium boreale

"Vaccinium boreale" is a plant species native to the northeastern United States and eastern Canada. It has been found in Québec, New Brunswick, Nova Scotia, Newfoundland and Labrador, Maine, New Hampshire, Vermont, and New York State. It grows in tundra, rocky uplands, and in open conifer forests at elevations up to 2,000 metres.
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Appearance

"Vaccinium boreale" is a small shrub up to 9 centimetres tall - it is a lowbush blueberry - forming dense colonies of many individuals. Twigs are green, angled, with lines of hairs. Leaves are deciduous, narrowly elliptic, up to 21 millimetres long, with teeth along the margins. Flowers are white, up to 4 millimetres long. Berries are blue, up to 5 millimetres across. Cytology is 2n = 24.

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Taxonomy
KingdomPlantae
DivisionAngiosperms
ClassEudicots
OrderEricales
FamilyEricaceae
GenusVaccinium
SpeciesV. boreale
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United States of America