Plants of USA and Canada

Scientific or common name:

Vaccinium membranaceum Douglas ex Torr.


ERICACEAE Family selection - Heath family (Angiosperms - Flowering plants)

Taxon Page:

Name: Vaccinium membranaceum Douglas ex Torr. Taxon selection
Nomencl. ref.: U.S. Expl. Exped., Phan. Pacific N. Amer. 17(2): 377, descr. 1874 ; C. Wilkes Expl. Exped.
Rank: species

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Common names

US name U.S. name: Thinleaf huckleberry
en English name: mountain bilberry
English name: thin-leaf-huckleberry

Grown habit: Shrub
Duration: Perennial
 

Synonyms:
= Vaccinium coccineum Piper
= Vaccinium globulare Rydb.
= Vaccinium membranaceum Douglas ex Torr. var. rigidum (Hook.) Fernald


Subspecies / Varieties:
1) Vaccinium membranaceum Douglas ex Torr. var. rigidum (Hook.) Fernald



TAXONOMY

Kingdom: Plantae
Subkingdom: Tracheobionta
Superdivision: Spermatophyta
Division: Magnoliophyta
Class: Magnoliopsida
Subclass: Dilleniidae
Order: Ericales
Family: Ericaceae
Genus: Vaccinium
Species:


Page counter: 681 ( AVG: 223.37 / 292.911 )



Gallery:

Vaccinium membranaceum
Vaccinium membranaceum
USDA-NRCS PLANTS Database / Britton, N.L., and A. Brown. 1913. An illustrated flora of the northern United States, Canada and the British Possessions. Vol. 2: 699.

Vaccinium membranaceum
Vaccinium membranaceum
E.H. Reid - USDA-NRCS PLANTS Database - Not copyrighted image

Vaccinium membranaceum
Vaccinium membranaceum
J.T. Jardine - USDA-NRCS PLANTS Database - Not copyrighted image


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Distribution in USA and Canada (*)
USA (AZ, CA, CO, ID, MI, MN, MT, OR, SD, UT, WA, WY), CAN (AB, BC, NT, ON, YT)

Distributional map for Vaccinium membranaceum Douglas ex Torr.
Map for Vaccinium membranaceum Douglas ex Torr.
(*) USDA, NRCS. 2009. The PLANTS Database (http://plants.usda.gov, 28 August 2009). National Plant Data Center, Baton Rouge, LA 70874-4490 USA



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More species:
1) Vaccinium membranaceum Douglas ex Torr. var. rigidum (Hook.) Fernald [119]
2) Vaccinium mucronatum L. [235]
3) Vaccinium myrsinites Lam. var. glaucum A. Gray [170]
4) Vaccinium myrtillus L. [1479]
5) Vaccinium neglectum (Small) Fernald [134]
6) Vaccinium occidentale A. Gray [96]
7) Vaccinium oxycoccos L. [1510]
8) Vaccinium pahalae Skottsb. [80]
9) Vaccinium stamineum L. [469]
10) Vaccinium uliginosum L. ssp. alpinum (Bigelow) Hultén [222]

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