Taxon: Vaccinium uliginosum L.

Common names:

• bog bilberry   (Source: Glea Cron ) – English
  
• bog blueberry   (Source: F Canada ) – English
  
• western-huckleberry   (Source: F Pacif NW [as V. uliginosum subsp. gaultherioides]) – English
  
• airelle de marécages   (Source: F NAmer ) – French
  
• Moosbeere   (Source: Zander ed14 ) – German
  
• Rauschbeere   (Source: Zander ed14 ) – German
  
• kuromamenoki   (Source: F Japan ) – Japanese Rōmaji
  
• odon   (Source: Vara kulturvaxt namn ) – Swedish
  

More:

see MMPND for additional names in foreign scripts

Economic importance:

• Human food: fruit   (fide F Japan; F ChinaEng)
  
• Gene sources: potential for cold tolerance in highbush blueberry   (fide Acta Hort 810:56. 2009)
  
• Gene sources: secondary genetic relative of lingonberry   (fide Int J Fruit Sc 6:43. 2006)
  
• Gene sources: tertiary genetic relative of highbush blueberry   (fide Acta Hort 810:55-56. 2009)
  
• Medicines: folklore   (fide CRC MedHerbs ed2)
  

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View ethnobotanical data from Moerman's Native American Ethnobotany Database

Distributional range:

• ASIA-TEMPERATE
  Western Asia: Turkey [n.]
  Caucasus: Armenia; Azerbaijan; Georgia
  Siberia: Russian Federation - Eastern Siberia, Western Siberia
  Mongolia: Mongolia
  Russian Far East: Russian Federation - Far East
  China: China - Heilongjiang [n.], Jilin [s.], Nei Monggol [n.e.]
  Eastern Asia: Japan - Hokkaido, Honshu [c. & n.]; Korea
• EUROPE
  Northern Europe: Denmark; Finland; Iceland; Norway; Sweden; United Kingdom
  Middle Europe: Austria; Belgium; Germany; Netherlands; Poland; Switzerland
  East Europe: Belarus; Estonia; Latvia; Lithuania; Russian Federation - European part; Ukraine
  Southeastern Europe: Albania; Bulgaria; Croatia; Italy; Macedonia; Romania; Serbia; Slovenia
  Southwestern Europe: France; Spain
• NORTHERN AMERICA (Check conservation status in U.S. & Canada in NatureServe Explorer database)
  Subarctic America: Canada - Northwest Territory, Yukon Territory; Greenland; United States - Alaska
  Eastern Canada: Canada - New Brunswick, Newfoundland, Nova Scotia, Ontario, Prince Edward Island, Quebec; St. Pierre and Miquelon
  Western Canada: Canada - Alberta, British Columbia, Manitoba, Nunavut, Saskatchewan
  Northeastern U.S.A.: United States - Maine, Michigan [n.], New Hampshire [n.], New York [n.], Vermont [n.]
  North-Central U.S.A.: United States - Minnesota
  Northwestern U.S.A.: United States - Idaho, Montana, Oregon, Washington, Wyoming [w.]
  Southwestern U.S.A.: United States - California [n.], Nevada, Utah [n.]

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).
• Ballington, J. R. 2009. The role of interspecific hybridization in blueberry improvement. Acta Hort. 810:49–60.
• Davis, P. H., ed. 1965–1988. Flora of Turkey and the east Aegean islands.
• Duke, J. A. et al. 2002. CRC Handbook of medicinal herbs.
• Encke, F. et al. 1993. Zander: Handwörterbuch der Pflanzennamen, 14. Auflage.
• Euro+Med Editorial Committee. Euro+Med Plantbase: the information resource for Euro-Mediterranean plant diversity (on-line resource).
• FNA Editorial Committee. 1993–. Flora of North America.
• Gleason, H. A. & A. Cronquist. 1963. Manual of vascular plants of northeastern United States and adjacent Canada.
• Grubov, V. I. 2001. Key to the vascular plants of Mongolia.
• Hitchcock, C. L. et al. 1955–1969. Vascular plants of the Pacific Northwest.
• Iwatsuki, K. et al. 1993–. Flora of Japan.
• Kitagawa, M. 1979. Neo-lineamenta florae Manshuricae.
• Komarov, V. L. et al., eds. 1934–1964. Flora SSSR.
• Laasimer, L. et al., eds. 1993–. Flora of the Baltic countries; compendium of vascular plants.
• Lee, Y. N. 1997. Flora of Korea.
• Liberty Hyde Bailey Hortorium. 1976. Hortus third.
• Morozov, O. V. 2006. The prospects for using Vaccinium uliginosum L. ×Vaccinium vitis-idaea L. hybrid in breeding. Int. J. Fruit Sci. 6:43–56.
• Ohwi, J. 1965. Flora of Japan (Engl. ed.).
• Porcher, M. H. et al. Searchable World Wide Web Multilingual Multiscript Plant Name Database (MMPND) (on-line resource).
• Scoggan, H. J. 1978–1979. The flora of Canada, 4 vol.
• Tutin, T. G. et al., eds. 1964–1980. Flora europaea.
• Vander Kloet, S. P. 1988. The genus Vaccinium in North America.
• Wu Zheng-yi & P. H. Raven et al., eds. 1994–. Flora of China (English edition).
• Young, S. B. 1970. On the taxonomy and distribution of Vaccinium uliginosum. Rhodora 72:439–459.

More:

Search AGRICOLA article citation database for citations referencing Vaccinium uliginosum.

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

Search Biodiversity Heritage Library for historical publications referencing Vaccinium uliginosum.

Synonyms:

• (=) Vaccinium gaultherioides Bigelow
  (previously associated with 1 accession)
• (=) Vaccinium occidentale A. Gray
  
• (=) Vaccinium uliginosum var. alpinum Bigelow
  
• (=) Vaccinium uliginosum subsp. gaultherioides (Bigelow) S. B. Young
  (previously associated with 1 accession)
• (=) Vaccinium uliginosum var. microphyllum Lange
  
• (=) Vaccinium uliginosum subsp. occidentale (A. Gray) Hultén
  (previously associated with 3 accessions)

Check other web resources for Vaccinium uliginosum L.:

• Flora Europaea: Database of European Plants (ESFEDS)
• 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
• Flora of China: Online version from Harvard University
• 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.

Images:

• GRIN Images of germplasm accessions.

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• Check PlantSystematics.org for additional images
• Images 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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