Taxon: Arctostaphylos uva-ursi (L.) Spreng.

Common names:

• bear-grape   (Source: Dict Gard ) – English
  
• bearberry   (Source: World Econ Pl ) – English
  
• hog-cranberry   (Source: Dict Gard ) – English
  
• kinnikinnick   (Source: F Pacif NW ) – English
  
• mealberry   (Source: Dict Gard ) – English
  
• mountain-box   (Source: Hortus 3 ) – English
  
• sandberry   (Source: Dict Gard ) – English
  
• upland-cranberry   (Source: Websters Dict ) – English
  
• uva-ursi   (Source: Herbs Commerce ed2 ) – English
  
• gayuba   (Source: F Int Apico ) – Spanish
  

Economic importance:

• Bee plants   (fide F Int Apico)
  
• Environmental: erosion control; ornamental   (fide F Neotrop; Dict Gard)
  
• Medicines: folklore   (fide Ency CNatIn; CRC MedHerbs ed2; Herbs Commerce ed2; F NE US)
  

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Distributional range:

• ASIA-TEMPERATE
  Caucasus: Georgia; Russian Federation - Ciscaucasia
  Siberia: Russian Federation - Eastern Siberia, Western Siberia
  Russian Far East: Russian Federation - Far East
• EUROPE
  Northern Europe: Denmark; Finland; Iceland; Ireland; Norway; Sweden; United Kingdom
  Middle Europe: Austria; Czechoslovakia; Germany; Netherlands; Poland; Switzerland
  East Europe: Belarus; Estonia; Latvia; Lithuania; Russian Federation - European part; Ukraine
  Southeastern Europe: Albania; Bulgaria; Former Yugoslavia; Greece; Italy; Romania
  Southwestern Europe: France; Spain
• NORTHERN AMERICA (Check conservation status in U.S. & Canada in NatureServe Explorer database)
  Subarctic America: Canada - Northwest Territory, Yukon Territory; United States - Alaska
  Eastern Canada: Canada - New Brunswick, Nova Scotia, Ontario, Prince Edward Island, Quebec
  Western Canada: Canada - Alberta, British Columbia, Manitoba, Saskatchewan
  Northeastern U.S.A.: United States - Connecticut, Indiana [n.], Maine, Massachusetts, Michigan, New Hampshire, New York, Ohio [n.], Pennsylvania [n.], Rhode Island, Vermont
  North-Central U.S.A.: United States - Illinois [n.], North Dakota, South Dakota [w.], Wisconsin
  Northwestern U.S.A.: United States - Colorado, Idaho, Montana, Oregon, Washington, Wyoming
  South-Central U.S.A.: United States - New Mexico
  Southwestern U.S.A.: United States - California, Utah
• SOUTHERN AMERICA
  Mesoamerica: Guatemala

• naturalized elsewhere

References:

• Davis, R. 1952. Flora of Idaho. (F Idaho)
• Deam, C. C. 1940. Flora of Indiana. (F Indiana)
• Duke, J. A. et al. 2002. CRC Handbook of medicinal herbs. (CRC MedHerbs ed2)
• Food and Agriculture Organization of the UN (FAO). 2010. Ecocrop - on-line resource. (Ecocrop)
• Gleason, H. A. & A. Cronquist. 1991. Manual of vascular plants of northeastern United States and adjacent Canada, ed. 2. (Glea Cron ed2)
• Greuter, W. et al., eds. 1984–. Med-Checklist. (L Medit)
• Hickman, J. C., ed. 1993. The Jepson manual: Higher plants of California. (F CalifJep)
• Hitchcock, C. L. et al. 1955–1969. Vascular plants of the Pacific Northwest. (F Pacif NW)
• Hultén, O. E. G. 1968. Flora of Alaska and neighboring territories. (F AlaskaHult)
• Huxley, A., ed. 1992. The new Royal Horticultural Society dictionary of gardening. (Dict Gard)
• Komarov, V. L. et al., eds. 1934–1964. Flora SSSR. (F USSR)
• Leung, A. Y. & S. Foster. 1996. Encyclopedia of common natural ingredients used in food, drugs, and cosmetics, ed. 2. (Ency CNatIn)
• Liberty Hyde Bailey Hortorium. 1976. Hortus third. (Hortus 3)
• Luteyn, J. L. et al. 1995. Ericaceae - Part II. The superior-ovaried genera (Monotropoideae. Pyroloideae, Rhododendroideae. and Vaccinioideae p.p.). In: Organization for Flora Neotropica, ed., Fl. Neotrop. Monogr. 66:143. [mentions].
• Magee, D. W. & H. E. Ahles. 1999. Flora of the Northeast. A manual of the vascular flora of New England and adjacent New York. (F NE US)
• Markle, G. M. et al., eds. 1998. Food and feed crops of the United States, ed. 2. (Food Feed Crops US)
• Martin, W. C. & C. R. Hutchins. 1980. A flora of New Mexico. (F New Mex)
• McGregor, R. L. et al. (The Great Plains Flora Association). 1977. Atlas of the Flora of the Great Plains. (Atlas GPlains)
• McGuffin, M., J. T. Kartesz, A. Y. Leung, & A. O. Tucker. 2000. Herbs of commerce, ed. 2. (Herbs Commerce ed2)
• Mitchell, R. S., ed. 1986. A checklist of New York state plants. New York State Mus. Bull. 458. (L New York)
• Mohlenbrock, R. H. 1975. Guide to the vascular flora of Illinois. (F IllMohl)
• Ohio Flora Committee (E. L. Braun, T. S. Cooperrider, T. R. Fisher, J. J. Furlow). 1967–. The vascular flora of Ohio. (F Ohio)
• Ortega-Sada, J. L. 1987. Flora de interes apicola y polinizacion de cultivos. (F Int Apico)
• Scoggan, H. J. 1978–1979. The flora of Canada, 4 vol. (F Canada)
• Stace, C. 1995. New flora of the British Isles. (F BritStace)
• Stone, W. 1973. The plants of southern New Jersey. (F SNJersey)
• Tutin, T. G. et al., eds. 1964–1980. Flora europaea. (F Eur)
• Walters, S. M. et al., eds. 1986–. European garden flora. (Eur Gard F)
• Welsh, S. L. et al. 1993. A Utah flora. (F Utah ed2)
• Wherry, E. T. et al. 1979. Atlas of the flora of Pennsylvania. (Atlas Penn)
• Webster's third new international dictionary. (Websters Dict)

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Synonyms:

• (≡) Arbutus uva-ursi L. (basionym)
  

Check other databases for Arctostaphylos uva-ursi (L.) Spreng.:

• Flora Europaea: Database of European Plants (ESFEDS)
• PLANTS: USDA-NRCS Database of Plants of the United States and its Territories
• TROPICOS: Nomenclatural and Specimen Database of the Missouri Botanical Garden
• Mansfeld: Mansfeld's World Database of Agricultural and Horticultural Crops
• ICRA: International Cultivar Registration Authority for Arctostaphylos uva-ursi cultivars
• ePIC: Electronic Plant Information Centre of Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew
• AGRICOLA: Article Citation Database or NAL Catalog of USDA's National Agricultural Library
• Entrez: NCBI's search engine for PubMed citations, GenBank sequences, etc.
  Note: Defaults to a search by genus or species epithet if species binomial not found.

Images:

• GRIN Images of germplasm accessions.
• Forestry Images: from www.forestryimages.org

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