View source for Vaccinium cespitosum

{{Treatment/ID
|accepted_name=Vaccinium cespitosum
|accepted_authority=Michaux
|publications={{Treatment/Publication
|title=Fl. Bor.-Amer.
|place=1: 234. 1803 ,
}}
|common_names=Dwarf bilberry;airelle gazonnante
|basionyms=
|synonyms={{Treatment/ID/Synonym
|name=Vaccinium arbuscula
|authority=(A. Gray) Merriam
|rank=species
}} {{Treatment/ID/Synonym
|name=Vaccinium caespitosum var. arbuscula
|authority=A. Gray
|rank=variety
}} {{Treatment/ID/Synonym
|name=Vaccinium caespitosum var. paludicola
|authority=(Camp) Hultén
|rank=variety
}} {{Treatment/ID/Synonym
|name=Vaccinium geminiflorum
|authority=Camp
|rank=species
}} {{Treatment/ID/Synonym
|name=Vaccinium nivictum
|authority=
|rank=species
}} {{Treatment/ID/Synonym
|name=Vaccinium paludicola
|authority=
|rank=species
}}
|hierarchy=Ericaceae;Ericaceae subfam. Vaccinioideae;Vaccinium;Vaccinium sect. Myrtillus;Vaccinium cespitosum
|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 cespitosum]]</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>forming dense colonies, 0.3–6 dm, superficially rhizomatous; twigs yellow-green, reddish green, or reddish brown, terete to somewhat angled, finely puberulent or, rarely, glabrous. <b>Leaf</b> blades green, usually oblanceolate, sometimes obovate or narrowly elliptic, 10–30 × 3–12 mm, margins usually serrulate from apex to at least mid blade, surfaces usually glandular abaxially, usually glabrous adaxially. <b>Flowers</b>: calyx pale green, lobes vestigial, glabrous; corolla white, white with pink striping, or pink, cylindric-urceolate to globose, 4–7 × 3–5 mm, thin, glaucous; filaments glabrous. <b>Berries</b> usually blue, glaucous, rarely dull black, 5–9 mm diam. <b>Seeds</b> ca. 1 mm. <b>2n</b> = 24.</span><!--

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|phenology=Flowering late spring-mid summer.
|habitat=Open, usually dry habitats, from lowland to subalpine areas
|elevation=0-4500 m
|distribution=Alta.;B.C.;Man.;N.B.;Nfld. and Labr.;N.W.T.;N.S.;Nunavut;Ont.;Que.;Sask.;Yukon;Alaska;Calif.;Colo.;Idaho;Maine;Mich.;Minn.;Mont.;N.H.;N.Mex.;N.Y.;Oreg.;Vt.;Wash.;Wis.;Wyo.;Mexico (Chihuahua;Durango;Hidalgo);Central America (Guatemala).
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-->{{#Taxon:
name=Vaccinium cespitosum
|authority=Michaux
|rank=species
|parent rank=section
|synonyms=Vaccinium arbuscula;Vaccinium caespitosum var. arbuscula;Vaccinium caespitosum var. paludicola;Vaccinium geminiflorum;Vaccinium nivictum;Vaccinium paludicola
|basionyms=
|family=Ericaceae
|phenology=Flowering late spring-mid summer.
|habitat=Open, usually dry habitats, from lowland to subalpine areas
|elevation=0-4500 m
|distribution=Alta.;B.C.;Man.;N.B.;Nfld. and Labr.;N.W.T.;N.S.;Nunavut;Ont.;Que.;Sask.;Yukon;Alaska;Calif.;Colo.;Idaho;Maine;Mich.;Minn.;Mont.;N.H.;N.Mex.;N.Y.;Oreg.;Vt.;Wash.;Wis.;Wyo.;Mexico (Chihuahua;Durango;Hidalgo);Central America (Guatemala).
|reference=None
|publication title=Fl. Bor.-Amer.
|publication year=
|special status=
|source xml=https://bibilujan@bitbucket.org/aafc-mbb/fna-data-curation.git/src/bb6b7e3a7de7d3b7888a1ad48c7fd8f5c722d8d6/coarse_grained_fna_xml/V8/V8_1020.xml
|subfamily=Ericaceae subfam. Vaccinioideae
|genus=Vaccinium
|section=Vaccinium sect. Myrtillus
|species=Vaccinium cespitosum
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