Vaccinium boreale

Vaccinium boreale
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Kingdom: Plantae
Clade: Tracheophytes
Clade: Angiosperms
Clade: Eudicots
Clade: Asterids
Order: Ericales
Family: Ericaceae
Genus: Vaccinium
Species:
V. boreale
Binomial name
Vaccinium boreale

Vaccinium boreale, common name northern blueberry, sweet hurts, or bleuet boréal (in French), is a plant species native to the northeastern United States and eastern Canada.[1] It has been found in Québec, New Brunswick, Nova Scotia, Newfoundland and Labrador, Maine, New Hampshire, Vermont, and New York State. It grows in tundra (arctic or alpine), rocky uplands, and in open conifer forests at elevations up to 2,000 metres (6,600 ft).[2][3][4]

Description

Vaccinium boreale is a small shrub up to 9 centimetres (3+1⁄2 in) tall - it is a lowbush blueberry[5] - forming dense colonies of many individuals. Twigs are green, angled, with lines of hairs. Leaves are deciduous, narrowly elliptic, up to 21 millimetres (13⁄16 in) long, with teeth along the margins. Flowers are white, up to 4 millimetres (5⁄32 in) long. Berries are blue, up to 5 millimetres (13⁄64 in) across.[6][7][8] Cytology is 2n = 24.[9][10]

References

  1. ^ "Lady Bird Johnson Wildflower Center - The University of Texas at Austin". www.wildflower.org.
  2. ^ "Vaccinium boreale in Flora of North America @ efloras.org". www.efloras.org.
  3. ^ Vander Kloet, S. P. 1977. The taxonomic status of Vaccinium boreale. Canadian Journal of Botany 55: 281-288.
  4. ^ Vander Kloet, S. P. 1988. The Genus Vaccinium in North America. Ottawa. Agriculture Canada, Research Branch, Publication number 1828.
  5. ^ Rodriguez-Saona, Cesar; Vincent, Charles; Isaacs, Rufus (2019-01-07). "Blueberry IPM: Past Successes and Future Challenges". Annual Review of Entomology. 64 (1). Annual Reviews: 95–114. doi:10.1146/annurev-ento-011118-112147. ISSN 0066-4170. PMID 30629894. S2CID 58573080.
  6. ^ Hall, Ivan Victor, & Aalders, Lewis Eldon. 1961. American Journal of Botany 48(3): 200–201, f. 1 [map].
  7. ^ Trehane, J. 2004. Blueberries, Cranberries, and Other Vacciniums. Portland, Maine.
  8. ^ Gleason, H. A. & A.J. Cronquist. 1991. Manual of the Vascular Plants of Northeastern United States and Adjacent Canada (ed. 2) i–910. New York Botanical Garden, Bronx.
  9. ^ Redpath, Lauren E.; Aryal, Rishi; Lynch, Nathan; Spencer, Jessica A.; Hulse-Kemp, Amanda M.; Ballington, James R.; Green, Jaimie; Bassil, Nahla; Hummer, Kim; Ranney, Thomas; Ashrafi, Hamid (2022). "Nuclear DNA contents and ploidy levels of North American Vaccinium species and interspecific hybrids". Scientia Horticulturae. 297. Elsevier BV: 110955. doi:10.1016/j.scienta.2022.110955. ISSN 0304-4238.
  10. ^ Hall, Susan H.; Galletta, G. J. (1971). "Comparative Chromosome Morphology of Diploid Vaccinium Species1". Journal of the American Society for Horticultural Science. 96 (3). American Society for Horticultural Science: 289–292. doi:10.21273/jashs.96.3.289. ISSN 0003-1062.


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