Vaccinium
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Vaccinium microcarpum (Small Cranberry) Vaccinium oxycoccus (Common Cranberry)
Vacciuium arboreum (Sparkleberry) Vaccinium ashei (Rabbiteye Blueberry) Vacciuium atrococcum (Black Huckleberry) Vaccinium caesium (Deerberry) Vaccinium corymbosum (Highbush Blueberry) Vaccinium melanocarpum (Georgia Blueberry) Vaccinium myrsinites (Evergreen Blueberry) Vaccinium myrtilloides (Canadian Blueberry) Vaccinium myrtillus (Bilberry) Vaccinium occidentalis (Western Blueberry) Vaccinium ovatum (California Huckleberry) Vaccinium pallidum (Dryland Blueberry) Vaccinium parvifolium (Red Huckleberry) Vaccinium uliginosum (Northern Bilberry) Vaccinium vitis-idaea (Cowberry) Vaccinium vitis-idaea var. minus (Lingonberry) and many more Ref.: ITIS 23571 |
Vaccinium is a genus of shrubs including the cranberry, blueberry, bilberry and huckleberry. The genus contains about 450 species, which grow in the cooler areas of the northern hemisphere, as well as in the South American Andes mountains. The plants prefer heath landscapes, as well as light forests.
There are two subgenera:
- Subgenus Oxycoccus, the cranberries, with slender, trailing, wiry non-woody shoots and strongly reflexed flower petals. Some botanists treat Oxycoccus as a distinct genus.
- Subgenus Vaccinium, all the other species, with thicker, upright woody shoots and bell-shaped flowers.