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{{Treatment/ID
|accepted_name=Vaccinium oxycoccos
|accepted_authority=Linnaeus
|publications={{Treatment/Publication
|title=Sp. Pl.
|place=1: 351. 1753 ,
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|common_names=Small cranberry;canneberge commune
|basionyms=
|synonyms={{Treatment/ID/Synonym
|name=Oxycoccus hagerupii
|authority=Á. Löve & D. Löve
|rank=species
}} {{Treatment/ID/Synonym
|name=Oxycoccus intermedius
|authority=(A. Gray) Rydberg
|rank=species
}} {{Treatment/ID/Synonym
|name=Oxycoccus microcarpus
|authority=Turczaninov ex Ruprecht
|rank=species
}} {{Treatment/ID/Synonym
|name=Oxycoccus ovalifolius
|authority=(Michaux) A. E. Porsild
|rank=species
}} {{Treatment/ID/Synonym
|name=Oxycoccus oxycoccos
|authority=(Linnaeus) MacMillan
|rank=species
}} {{Treatment/ID/Synonym
|name=Oxycoccus palustris
|authority=Persoon
|rank=species
}} {{Treatment/ID/Synonym
|name=Oxycoccus palustris var. intermedius
|authority=(A. Gray) Howell
|rank=variety
}} {{Treatment/ID/Synonym
|name=Oxycoccus palustris subsp. microphyllus
|authority=(Lange) Á. Löve & D. Löve
|rank=subspecies
}} {{Treatment/ID/Synonym
|name=Oxycoccus palustris var. ovalifolius
|authority=(Michaux) F. Seymour
|rank=variety
}} {{Treatment/ID/Synonym
|name=Oxycoccus quadripetalus
|authority=
|rank=species
}} {{Treatment/ID/Synonym
|name=Oxycoccus quadripetalus var. microphyllus
|authority=(Lange) Porsild
|rank=variety
}} {{Treatment/ID/Synonym
|name=Vaccinium microcarpum
|authority=
|rank=species
}} {{Treatment/ID/Synonym
|name=Vaccinium oxycoccos var. intermedium
|authority=A. Gray
|rank=variety
}} {{Treatment/ID/Synonym
|name=Vaccinium oxycoccos subsp. microphyllum
|authority=(Lange) Feilberg
|rank=subspecies
}} {{Treatment/ID/Synonym
|name=Vaccinium oxycoccos var. microphyllum
|authority=(Lange) J. Rousseau & Raymond
|rank=variety
}} {{Treatment/ID/Synonym
|name=Vaccinium oxycoccos var. ovalifolium
|authority=Michaux
|rank=variety
}}
|hierarchy=Ericaceae;Ericaceae subfam. Vaccinioideae;Vaccinium;Vaccinium sect. Oxycoccus;Vaccinium oxycoccos
|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. Oxycoccus]]</div><div class="higher-taxon"><small>species</small>[[Vaccinium oxycoccos]]</div></div>
|volume=Volume 8
|mention_page=page 516
|treatment_page=page 519
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--><span class="statement" id="st-undefined" data-properties=""><b>Plants </b>trailing, shoots 0.1–0.3(–0.5) dm. <b>Leaf</b> blades glaucous abaxially, green adaxially, ovate, sometimes elliptic, 3–10 × 1–5 mm, coriaceous, margins entire, strongly revolute. <b>Inflorescences</b> in axils of leaflike bracts at base of previous year’s or older shoots, (leafy portion often failing to elongate). <b>Pedicels</b> nodding, slender, 2–3 cm, bracteolate or not; bracteoles 1–5, reddish, scalelike, to 1 mm wide. <b>Flowers</b>: calyx lobes relatively small; corolla strongly reflexed at anthesis, white to deep pink; filaments hairy; anther tubules 2–2.5 mm. <b>Berries</b> deep red, red-spotted at first, 6–12 mm diam., smooth. <b>2n</b> = 24, 48, 72.</span><!--

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|phenology=Flowering early summer.
|habitat=Half buried in Sphagnum hummocks in bogs, fens, muskeg, arctic-alpine tundra
|elevation=0-1500 m
|distribution=Greenland;St. Pierre and Miquelon;Alta.;B.C.;Man.;N.B.;Nfld. and Labr.;N.W.T.;N.S.;Nunavut;Ont.;P.E.I.;Que.;Sask.;Yukon;Alaska;Calif.;Conn.;Idaho;Ill.;Ind.;Maine;Md.;Mass.;Mich.;Minn.;N.H.;N.J.;N.Y.;Ohio;Oreg.;Pa.;R.I.;Vt.;Wash.;W.Va.;Wis.;n Europe;n Asia.
|discussion=<p><i>Vaccinium oxycoccos</i> is interruptedly circumboreal (absent from the Canadian Arctic Archipelago, including Baffin Island) extending southward in North America to California in the Cascade Range and to West Virginia in the Appalachian Mountains.</p><!--
--><p>In Europe, some chromosome races of <i>Vaccinium oxycoccos</i> have been given specific rank (S. P. Vander Kloet 1983) at one time or another; unfortunately, hexaploids cannot be differentiated consistently from diploids or tetraploids using morphological features such as leaf indumentum or bract size.</p><!--
--><p>On most vines, especially north of 50° north latitude, the leafy portion of the fertile shoot fails to develop, giving the illusion that <i>Vaccinium oxycoccos</i> has an inflorescence comprising a short rachis bearing flowers on a slender pedicel.</p>
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|references={{Treatment/Reference
|id=mahy2000a
|text=Mahy, G. et al. 2000. Allozyme evidence for genetic autopolyploidy and high genetic diversity in the tetraploid cranberry, Vaccinium oxycoccos (Ericaceae). Amer. J. Bot. 87: 1882–1889.
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-->{{#Taxon:
name=Vaccinium oxycoccos
|authority=Linnaeus
|rank=species
|parent rank=section
|synonyms=Oxycoccus hagerupii;Oxycoccus intermedius;Oxycoccus microcarpus;Oxycoccus ovalifolius;Oxycoccus oxycoccos;Oxycoccus palustris;Oxycoccus palustris var. intermedius;Oxycoccus palustris subsp. microphyllus;Oxycoccus palustris var. ovalifolius;Oxycoccus quadripetalus;Oxycoccus quadripetalus var. microphyllus;Vaccinium microcarpum;Vaccinium oxycoccos var. intermedium;Vaccinium oxycoccos subsp. microphyllum;Vaccinium oxycoccos var. microphyllum;Vaccinium oxycoccos var. ovalifolium
|basionyms=
|family=Ericaceae
|phenology=Flowering early summer.
|habitat=Half buried in Sphagnum hummocks in bogs, fens, muskeg, arctic-alpine tundra
|elevation=0-1500 m
|distribution=Greenland;St. Pierre and Miquelon;Alta.;B.C.;Man.;N.B.;Nfld. and Labr.;N.W.T.;N.S.;Nunavut;Ont.;P.E.I.;Que.;Sask.;Yukon;Alaska;Calif.;Conn.;Idaho;Ill.;Ind.;Maine;Md.;Mass.;Mich.;Minn.;N.H.;N.J.;N.Y.;Ohio;Oreg.;Pa.;R.I.;Vt.;Wash.;W.Va.;Wis.;n Europe;n Asia.
|reference=mahy2000a
|publication title=Sp. Pl.
|publication year=
|special status=
|source xml=https://bitbucket.org/aafc-mbb/fna-data-curation/src/2e0870ddd59836b60bcf96646a41e87ea5a5943a/coarse_grained_fna_xml/V8/V8_1011.xml
|subfamily=Ericaceae subfam. Vaccinioideae
|genus=Vaccinium
|section=Vaccinium sect. Oxycoccus
|species=Vaccinium oxycoccos
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