Vaccinium
uliginosum is native to cool temperate regions of the Northern
Hemisphere, at low altitudes in the Arctic, and at high altitudes
south to the Pyrenees, the Alps, and the Caucasus in Europe, and the
Sierra Nevada in California and the Rocky Mountains inUtah in North
America.
It
grows on wet acids soils on heatlands, moreland, tundra, and in the
understory of coniferous forests, from sea level in the Arctic, up to
3,400 metres altitude in the south of the range.
Description
Vaccinium
uliginosum is a small decidus shrub growing to cm 10–75 centimetres
tall, with brown stems The leaves are oval, blue-green with pale
net-like veins, with a smooth margin and rounded apex.
The
flowers are pendulous, urn-shaped, pale pink, produced in mid
spring;depends on the area. The fruit is a dark blue-black berry
with a white flesh, edible and sweet when ripe in late summer.
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Leiah Sariell 2014-
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