Taxon: Vaccinium macrocarpon Aiton

Common names:

• American cranberry   (Source: Dict Rehm ) – English
  
• cranberry   (Source: World Econ Pl ) – English
  
• large cranberry   (Source: Castanea 61:138.) – English
  
• canneberge à gros fruits   (Source: F NAmer ) – French
  
• ronce d'Amérique   (Source: Dict Rehm ) – French
  
• große Moosbeere   (Source: Dict Rehm ) – German
  
• Kranbeere   (Source: Dict Rehm ) – German
  
• arándano americano   (Source: Dict Rehm ) – Spanish
  
• arándano trepador   (Source: Dict Rehm ) – Spanish
  
• amerikanskt tranbär   (Source: Vara kulturvaxt namn ) – Swedish
  

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see MMPND for additional names in foreign scripts

Economic importance:

• Human food: beverage base   (fide Ency CNatIn)
  
• Human food: fruit   (fide Ency CNatIn)
  
• Gene sources: primary genetic relative of cranberry   (fide Temp Fruit Cr Breed 115-149. 2008)
  
• Medicines: folklore   (fide CRC MedHerbs ed2; Herbs Commerce ed2)
  

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View phytochemical or ethnobotanical data from Duke's Phytochemical and Ethnobotanical Databases

View ethnobotanical data from Moerman's Native American Ethnobotany Database

Distributional range:

• NORTHERN AMERICA (Check conservation status in U.S. & Canada in NatureServe Explorer database)
  Eastern Canada: Canada - New Brunswick, Newfoundland [s.e. & s.-c.], Nova Scotia, Ontario, Prince Edward Island, Quebec; St. Pierre and Miquelon
  Northeastern U.S.A.: United States - Connecticut, Indiana [n.], Maine, Massachusetts, Michigan, New Hampshire, New Jersey, New York, Ohio, Pennsylvania, Rhode Island, Vermont, West Virginia
  North-Central U.S.A.: United States - Illinois [n.e.], Minnesota, Wisconsin
  Southeastern U.S.A.: United States - Delaware, District of Columbia, Maryland, North Carolina [n.e. & w.], Tennessee, Virginia

• NORTHERN AMERICA (Check conservation status in U.S. & Canada in NatureServe Explorer database)
  Western Canada: Canada - British Columbia
  Northwestern U.S.A.: United States - Oregon, Washington

• EUROPE
  East Europe: Belarus
• NORTHERN AMERICA
  Canada
  United States

References:

• Aldén, B., S. Ryman & M. Hjertson. 2009. Våra kulturväxters namn - ursprung och användning. Formas, Stockholm (Handbook on Swedish cultivated and utility plants, their names and origin).
• Brown, A. O. & J. N. McNeil. 2006. Fruit production in cranberry (Ericaceae: Vaccinium macrocarpon): a bet-hedging strategy to optimize reproductive effort. Amer. J. Bot. 93:910–916.
• Deam, C. C. 1940. Flora of Indiana.
• Duke, J. A. et al. 2002. CRC Handbook of medicinal herbs.
• FNA Editorial Committee. 1993–. Flora of North America.
• Facciola, S. 1990. Cornucopia, a source book of edible plants.
• Fajardo, D. et al. 2013. Complete plastid genome sequence of Vaccinium macrocarpon: structure, gene content, and rearrangements revealed by next generation sequencing. Tree Genet. Genomes 9:489–498.
• Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO). 2010. Ecocrop (on-line resource).
• Gleason, H. A. & A. Cronquist. 1963. Manual of vascular plants of northeastern United States and adjacent Canada.
• Hackett, C. & J. Carolane. 1982. Edible Horticultural Crops.
• Hancock, J. F. et al. 2008. Blueberries and cranberries. Pp. 4:115–149 in: Hancock, J. F., ed., Temperate fruit crop breeding: germplasm to genomics.
• Hanelt, P., ed. 2001. Mansfeld's encyclopedia of agricultural and horticultural crops. Volumes 1-6.
• Huxley, A., ed. 1992. The new Royal Horticultural Society dictionary of gardening.
• Kartesz, J. T. 1994. A synonymized checklist of the vascular flora of the United States, Canada, and Greenland.
• Krüssmann, G. 1984. Manual of cultivated broad-leaved trees and shrubs (English translation of Handbuch der Laubgehölze. 1976).
• Leung, A. Y. & S. Foster. 1996. Encyclopedia of common natural ingredients used in food, drugs, and cosmetics, ed. 2.
• Mahy, G. et al. 2000. Allozyme evidence for genetic autopolyploidy and high genetic diversity in tetraploid cranberry, Vaccinium oxycoccos (Ericaceae). Amer. J. Bot. 87:1882–1889. [this study mentioned crossability between diploid Vaccinium macrocarpon and diploid V. oxycoccos with fertility as those by intraspecific crosses; and a probable crossing between autotetraploid V. oxycoccos and V. macrocarpon through unreduced gametes for the latter].
• Markle, G. M. et al., eds. 1998. Food and feed crops of the United States, ed. 2.
• McGuffin, M., J. T. Kartesz, A. Y. Leung, & A. O. Tucker. 2000. Herbs of commerce, ed. 2.
• Mohlenbrock, R. H. & D. M. Ladd. 1978. Distribution of Illinois vascular plants.
• Ohio Flora Committee (E. L. Braun, T. S. Cooperrider, T. R. Fisher, J. J. Furlow). 1967–. The vascular flora of Ohio.
• Ownbey, G. B. & T. Morley. 1991. Vascular plants of Minnesota: a checklist and atlas.
• Porcher, M. H. et al. Searchable World Wide Web Multilingual Multiscript Plant Name Database (MMPND) (on-line resource).
• Radford, A. E. et al. 1964. Manual of the vascular flora of the Carolinas.
• Rehm, S. 1994. Multilingual dictionary of agronomic plants.
• Scoggan, H. J. 1978–1979. The flora of Canada, 4 vol. [= Oxycoccus macrocarpus (Aiton) Pers.].
• Stewart Jr., C. N. & E. T. Nilsen. 1995. Phenotypic plasticity and genetic variation of Vaccinium macrocarpon, the American cranberry I. Reaction norms of clones from central and marginal populations in a common garden. Int. J. Pl. Sci. 156:687–197.
• Uttal, L. J. 1986. Updating the genus Vaccinium L. (Ericaceae) in West Virginia. Castanea 51:200.
• Uttal, L. J. 1987. The genus Vaccinium L. (Ericaceae) in Virginia. Castanea 52:252.
• Vander Kloet, S. P. 1983. The taxonomy of Vaccinium section Oxycoccus. Rhodora 85:25.
• Vander Kloet, S. P. 1988. The genus Vaccinium in North America.
• Vander Kloet, S. P. 1996. Vaccinium. In: J. L. Luteyn et al., Ericaceae of the southeastern United States. Castanea 61:138.
• Walters, S. M. et al., eds. 1986–. European garden flora.

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Search AGRICOLA article citation database for citations referencing Vaccinium macrocarpon.

Search NCBI's Entrez search engine for PubMed citations referencing Vaccinium macrocarpon.

Search Biodiversity Heritage Library for historical publications referencing Vaccinium macrocarpon.

Synonyms:

• (≡) Oxycoccus macrocarpos (Aiton) Pers.
  (previously associated with 1 accession)

Check other web resources for Vaccinium macrocarpon Aiton:

• Flora of North America: Collaborative Floristic Effort of North American Botanists
• PLANTS: USDA-NRCS Database of Plants of the United States and its Territories
• BONAP: North American Plant Atlas of the Biota of North America Program
• TROPICOS: Nomenclatural and Specimen Database of the Missouri Botanical Garden
• Mansfeld: Mansfeld's World Database of Agricultural and Horticultural Crops
• 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.

Check other web resources for images:

• PlantSystematics.org
• Note: Be advised that their identity may be inaccurate. Proper identification of a plant may require specialized taxonomic knowledge or comparison with properly documented herbarium material.

Abbreviations & symbols in GRIN Taxonomy

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