View source for Vaccinium angustifolium

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|accepted_name=Vaccinium angustifolium
|accepted_authority=Aiton
|publications={{Treatment/Publication
|title=Hort. Kew.
|place=2: 11. 1789 ,
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|common_names=Early low-bush blueberry;bleuet à feuilles étroites
|special_status={{Treatment/ID/Special_status
|code=E
|label=Endemic
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|basionyms=
|synonyms={{Treatment/ID/Synonym
|name=Vaccinium angustifolium var. hypolasium
|authority=Fernald
|rank=variety
}} {{Treatment/ID/Synonym
|name=Vaccinium angustifolium var. laevifolium
|authority=House
|rank=variety
}} {{Treatment/ID/Synonym
|name=Vaccinium angustifolium var. nigrum
|authority=(Alph. Wood) Dole
|rank=variety
}} {{Treatment/ID/Synonym
|name=Vaccinium brittonii
|authority=Lamarck
|rank=species
}} {{Treatment/ID/Synonym
|name=Vaccinium lamarckii
|authority=
|rank=species
}} {{Treatment/ID/Synonym
|name=Vaccinium nigrum
|authority=
|rank=species
}} {{Treatment/ID/Synonym
|name=Vaccinium pensylvanicum var. nigrum
|authority=Alph. Wood
|rank=variety
}}
|hierarchy=Ericaceae;Ericaceae subfam. Vaccinioideae;Vaccinium;Vaccinium sect. Cyanococcus;Vaccinium angustifolium
|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. Cyanococcus]]</div><div class="higher-taxon"><small>species</small>[[Vaccinium angustifolium]]</div></div>
|volume=Volume 8
|mention_page=page 371, 517, 529
|treatment_page=page 528
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--><span class="statement" id="st-undefined" data-properties=""><b>Plants </b>forming dense, extensive colonies, 1–3 dm; twigs of current season green to glaucous, ± angled, glabrous or hairy. <b>Leaves</b> deciduous; blade dark to pale green or glaucous, elliptic to narrowly elliptic, 15–41 × (5–)6–16(–20) mm, margins usually sharply, uniformly serrate (serrations sometimes minute, tipped with stipitate gland), surfaces glabrous or hairy, especially along abaxial midvein, eglandular abaxially. <b>Flowers</b>: calyx green, glaucous, glabrous; corolla usually white, cylindric to urceolate, 4–6 mm; filaments ciliate; (tubules with introrse, elongate pores). <b>Berries</b> black or blue, rarely white, 3–12 mm diam., glabrous. <b>Seeds</b> (3–)10–15(–20), ca. 1.2 mm. <b>2n</b> = 48.</span><!--

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|phenology=Flowering spring–early summer.
|habitat=Headlands, high moors, dry, sandy areas, peaty barrens, rocky outcroppings, pine barrens, oak parklands, regeneration forests, abandoned pastures and bogs
|elevation=0-1900 m
|distribution=St. Pierre and Miquelon;Man.;N.B.;Nfld. and Labr.;N.S.;Ont.;P.E.I.;Que.;Conn.;Del.;Ill.;Ind.;Iowa;Maine;Md.;Mass.;Mich.;Minn.;N.H.;N.J.;N.Y.;N.C.;Ohio;Pa.;R.I.;Tenn.;Vt.;Va.;W.Va.;Wis.
|discussion=<p><i>Vaccinium angustifolium</i> is extensively harvested from cultivated and wild plants in New England (especially Maine) and in Quebec and the Canadian Maritime Provinces.</p>
|tables=
|references={{Treatment/Reference
|id=hall1979a
|text=Hall, I. V., L. E. Aalders, N. L. Nickerson, and S. P. Vander Kloet. 1979. The biological flora of Canada: 1. Vaccinium angustifolium Ait., sweet lowbush blueberry. Canad. Field-Naturalist 93: 415–430.
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|id=hokanson1993a
|text=Hokanson, K. and J. F. Hancock. 1993. The common lowbush blueberry, Vaccinium angustifolium Aiton, may be an autopolyploid. Canad. J. Pl. Sci. 73: 889–891.
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-->{{#Taxon:
name=Vaccinium angustifolium
|authority=Aiton
|rank=species
|parent rank=section
|synonyms=Vaccinium angustifolium var. hypolasium;Vaccinium angustifolium var. laevifolium;Vaccinium angustifolium var. nigrum;Vaccinium brittonii;Vaccinium lamarckii;Vaccinium nigrum;Vaccinium pensylvanicum var. nigrum
|basionyms=
|family=Ericaceae
|phenology=Flowering spring–early summer.
|habitat=Headlands, high moors, dry, sandy areas, peaty barrens, rocky outcroppings, pine barrens, oak parklands, regeneration forests, abandoned pastures and bogs
|elevation=0-1900 m
|distribution=St. Pierre and Miquelon;Man.;N.B.;Nfld. and Labr.;N.S.;Ont.;P.E.I.;Que.;Conn.;Del.;Ill.;Ind.;Iowa;Maine;Md.;Mass.;Mich.;Minn.;N.H.;N.J.;N.Y.;N.C.;Ohio;Pa.;R.I.;Tenn.;Vt.;Va.;W.Va.;Wis.
|reference=hall1979a;hokanson1993a
|publication title=Hort. Kew.
|publication year=
|special status=Endemic
|source xml=https://bibilujan@bitbucket.org/aafc-mbb/fna-data-curation.git/src/bb6b7e3a7de7d3b7888a1ad48c7fd8f5c722d8d6/coarse_grained_fna_xml/V8/V8_1029.xml
|subfamily=Ericaceae subfam. Vaccinioideae
|genus=Vaccinium
|section=Vaccinium sect. Cyanococcus
|species=Vaccinium angustifolium
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