View source for Vaccinium ovalifolium

{{Treatment/ID
|accepted_name=Vaccinium ovalifolium
|accepted_authority=Smith in A. Rees
|publications={{Treatment/Publication
|title=in A. Rees, Cycl.
|place=36: Vaccinium no. 2. 1817,
}}
|common_names=Early blueberry;oval-leaf huckleberry;airelle à feuilles ovées
|basionyms=
|synonyms={{Treatment/ID/Synonym
|name=Vaccinium alaskaense
|authority=Howell
}}
|hierarchy=Ericaceae;Ericaceae subfam. Vaccinioideae;Vaccinium;Vaccinium sect. Myrtillus;Vaccinium ovalifolium
|hierarchy_nav=<div class="higher-taxa"><div class="higher-taxon"><small>family</small>[[Ericaceae]]</div><div class="higher-taxon"><small>subfamily</small>[[Ericaceae subfam. Vaccinioideae]]</div><div class="higher-taxon"><small>genus</small>[[Vaccinium]]</div><div class="higher-taxon"><small>section</small>[[Vaccinium sect. Myrtillus]]</div><div class="higher-taxon"><small>species</small>[[Vaccinium ovalifolium]]</div></div>
|volume=Volume 8
|mention_page=page 516, 522
|treatment_page=page 524
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--><span class="statement" id="st-undefined" data-properties=""><b>Plants </b>crown-forming, clumped, suckering when disturbed, rarely forming extensive colonies, 3–40 dm, not rhizomatous; twigs yellow-green or golden brown, glaucous, usually terete, sometimes somewhat angled, glabrous, sometimes hairy in lines. <b>Leaf</b> blades pale green or glaucous abaxially, slightly darker pale green adaxially, ovate to elliptic, rarely obovate, 25–39 × 16–20 mm, margins entire to obscurely serrate, abaxial surface glabrous, eglandular (sometimes hairy or glandular along midvein), adaxial surface usually glabrous (sometimes hairy and/or glandular). <b>Flowers</b>: calyx pale green or glaucous, lobes vestigial or absent, glabrous; corolla pink, bronze-pink, or greenish white, globose, sometimes urceolate, 5–7 × 4–5 mm, thin, glaucous; filaments glabrous or pilose basally. <b>Berries</b> blue, dull purplish black, or black, sometimes glaucous, 8–10 mm diam. <b>Seeds</b> ca. 1 mm. <b>2n</b> = 24, 48.</span><!--

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|phenology=Flowering spring-mid summer(-late summer).
|habitat=Moist or mesic coniferous woods, transitional habitats adjacent to these coniferous stands, cut-over coniferous woods, verges of road cuts, margins of coniferous woods, peaty slopes
|elevation=0-2100 m
|distribution=Alta.;B.C.;Nfld. and Labr. (Nfld.);N.S.;Ont.;Que.;Yukon;Alaska;Idaho;Mich.;Oreg.;S.Dak.;Wash.;e Asia (c Japan;Kamchatka).
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-->{{#Taxon:
name=Vaccinium ovalifolium
|author=
|authority=Smith in A. Rees
|rank=species
|parent rank=section
|synonyms=Vaccinium alaskaense
|basionyms=
|family=Ericaceae
|phenology=Flowering spring-mid summer(-late summer).
|habitat=Moist or mesic coniferous woods, transitional habitats adjacent to these coniferous stands, cut-over coniferous woods, verges of road cuts, margins of coniferous woods, peaty slopes
|elevation=0-2100 m
|distribution=Alta.;B.C.;Nfld. and Labr. (Nfld.);N.S.;Ont.;Que.;Yukon;Alaska;Idaho;Mich.;Oreg.;S.Dak.;Wash.;e Asia (c Japan;Kamchatka).
|reference=None
|publication title=in A. Rees, Cycl.
|publication year=
|special status=
|source xml=https://jpend@bitbucket.org/aafc-mbb/fna-data-curation.git/src/f6b125a955440c0872999024f038d74684f65921/coarse_grained_fna_xml/V8/V8_1021.xml
|subfamily=Ericaceae subfam. Vaccinioideae
|genus=Vaccinium
|section=Vaccinium sect. Myrtillus
|species=Vaccinium ovalifolium
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