General:
Low, spreading shrub; stems 10-30 cm tall, not angled; young branches yellowish-green, minutely hairy; old branches greyish-red.
Leaves:
Alternate, deciduous, from broadly egg-shaped to oval or elliptic, 0.4-3 cm long, 0.2-1.5 cm wide, rounded at tips, tapered at base, glabrous or minutely hairy, green above, lower surfaces pale or with slight bloom, strongly net-veined, margins entire, rolled under somewhat.
Flowers:
Clusters of 1-4, in leaf axils; corollas pink, egg- to urn-shaped, 5-6 mm long, 4- to 5-lobed, the lobes curled back; calyces deeply 4- to 5-lobed, persistent on mature fruit; filaments glabrous; anthers awned, the pore-bearing terminal tubes about equaling the pollen sacs.
Fruits:
Berries, globe-shaped, 5-8 mm wide, blue, with a bloom; edible and sweet.
Notes:
Two subspecies are recognized in BC:
1. Leaves hairy................. ssp. pubescens (Wormsk. ex Hornem.) S.B. Young
1. Leaves glabrous or minutely hairy........................ ssp. occidentale (A. Gray) Hult.
Site Information |
Value / Class |
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Avg |
Min |
Max |
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Elevation
(metres) |
1160 | 1160 | 1160 |
Slope
Gradient (%) |
0 | 0 | 0 |
Aspect (degrees) |
0 | ||
Soil
Moisture Regime (SMR) [0 - very xeric; 4 - mesic; 8 - hydric] |
1 | 1 | 1 |
Modal
Nutrient Regime
Class |
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#
of field plots species was recorded in: |
1 | ||
Modal
BEC Zone Class |
BAFA | ||
All BEC Zones (# of stations/zone) species was recorded in |
BAFA(1) | ||
Source:
Klinkenberg 2013
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Synonyms and Alternate Names:
Vaccinium uliginosum var. langeanum