Vaccinium myrtillus L.

ERICACEAE

- Heath family (Angiosperms - Flowering plants)

Taxon Page:

Name: Vaccinium myrtillus L.

Nomencl. ref.: Sp. Pl.: 349 (1753)
Rank: species

Images of Vaccinium myrtillus

Common names

U.S. name: Whortleberry

English name: bilberry

English name: blaeberry

French name: myrtille

Italian name: Mirtillo nero

German name: Heidelbeere

Grown habit: Subshrub, Shrub
Duration: Perennial

Synonyms:
= Vaccinium myrtillus L. ssp. oreophilum (Rydb.) A. Löve & D. Löve & Kapoor
= Vaccinium myrtillus L. var. oreophilum (Rydb.) Dorn
= Vaccinium oreophilum Rydb.

Subspecies / Varieties:
1) Vaccinium myrtillus L. ssp. oreophilum (Rydb.) A. Löve & D. Löve & Kapoor
2) Vaccinium myrtillus L. var. oreophilum (Rydb.) Dorn

TAXONOMY

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

Page counter: 1467 ( AVG: 221.23 / 219.911 )

Gallery:

Vaccinium myrtillus
Credit: Photo by Silvano Radivo

Vaccinium myrtillus
Picture modified from Thomé, Otto Wilhelm - Lehrbuch der Botanik fur Gymnasien, Realschulen, forst- und landwirthschaftliche Lehranstalten, pharmaceutische Institute etc. sowie zum Selbstunterrichte. 2. Auflage. (1872) - Permission granted to use under GFDL by Kurt Stueber. Source: www.biolib.de - Permission is granted to copy, distribute and/or modify this image under the terms of the GNU Free Documentation License, Version 1.3 or any later version published by the Free Software Foundation; with no Invariant Sections, no Front-Cover Texts, and no Back-Cover Texts. A copy of the license is included in the section entitled GNU Free Documentation License.

Vaccinium myrtillus
Credit: Photo by Aldo De Bastiani

Vaccinium myrtillus
Credit: Photo by Giancarlo Pasquali

Vaccinium myrtillus
Photo by Leo Michels. Usage: Public Domain

Vaccinium myrtillus
Dipartimento di Scienze della Vita, Università di Trieste - Progetto Dryades - Picture by Andrea Moro - Comune di Forni Avoltri, pendici del Monte Coglians, nei pressi del Rifugio Lambertenghi-Romanin. , UD, FVG, Italia, - Image licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution Non Commercial Share-Alike 3.0 License

Vaccinium myrtillus
Dipartimento di Scienze della Vita, Università di Trieste - Progetto Dryades - Picture by Andrea Moro - Comune di Belluno, Nevegal, Orto Botanico delle Alpi Orientali., BL, Veneto, Italia, - Image licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution Non Commercial Share-Alike 3.0 License

Vaccinium myrtillus
Dipartimento di Scienze della Vita, Università di Trieste - Progetto Dryades - Picture by Andrea Moro - Comune di Ampezzo, Passo del Pura, Malga Tintina., UD, FVG, Italia, - Image licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution Non Commercial Share-Alike 3.0 License

Vaccinium myrtillus
Jacob Sturm, Johann Georg Sturm - Deutschlands Flora in Abbildungen (1796). - This image is in the public domain because its copyright has expired.

Vaccinium myrtillus
Credit: Photo by Antonino Messina

Vaccinium myrtillus
Picture modified from Richard Wettstein - Handbuch der Systematischen Botanik (1924) - Permission granted to use under GFDL by Kurt Stueber. Source: www.biolib.de - Permission is granted to copy, distribute and/or modify this image under the terms of the GNU Free Documentation License, Version 1.3 or any later version published by the Free Software Foundation; with no Invariant Sections, no Front-Cover Texts, and no Back-Cover Texts. A copy of the license is included in the section entitled 'GNU Free Documentation License'.

Vaccinium myrtillus
Credit: Photo by Giancarlo Pasquali

Vaccinium myrtillus
Walter Hood Fitch - Illustrations of the British Flora (1924) - Permission granted to use under GFDL by Kurt Stueber. Source: www.biolib.de - Permission is granted to copy, distribute and/or modify this image under the terms of the GNU Free Documentation License, Version 1.3 or any later version published by the Free Software Foundation; with no Invariant Sections, no Front-Cover Texts, and no Back-Cover Texts. A copy of the license is included in the section entitled "GNU Free Documentation License".

Vaccinium myrtillus
Hippolyte Coste - Flore descriptive et illustrée de la France, de la Corse et des contrées limitrophes, 1901-1906 - This image is in public domain because its copyright has expired.

Vaccinium myrtillus
Credit: Photo by Silvano Radivo

Vaccinium myrtillus
C. Hoffmann - Botanischer Bilder-Atlas (1884) - This image is in the public domain because its copyright has expired.

Vaccinium myrtillus
Credit: Photo by Aldo De Bastiani

Vaccinium myrtillus
Photo by Leo Michels. Usage: Public Domain

Vaccinium myrtillus
Picture modified from Bley, Franz - Botanisches Bilderbuch (1897/98) - Permission granted to use under GFDL by Kurt Stueber. Source: www.biolib.de - Permission is granted to copy, distribute and/or modify this image under the terms of the GNU Free Documentation License, Version 1.3 or any later version published by the Free Software Foundation; with no Invariant Sections, no Front-Cover Texts, and no Back-Cover Texts. A copy of the license is included in the section entitled GNU Free Documentation License.

Vaccinium myrtillus
Credit: Photo by Giancarlo Pasquali

Vaccinium myrtillus
Photo by Leo Michels. Usage: Public Domain

Vaccinium myrtillus
Credit: Photo by Anja Michelucci

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Distribution in USA and Canada (*)
USA (AZ, CO, ID, MT, NM, NV, OR, UT, WA, WY), CAN (AB, BC), DEN (GL)

Distributional map for Vaccinium myrtillus L.
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(*) 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 myrtillus L. ssp. oreophilum (Rydb.) A. Löve & D. Löve & Kapoor [174]
2) Vaccinium ovalifolium Sm. [656]
3) Vaccinium ovatum Pursh [220]
4) Vaccinium oxycoccos L. var. intermedium A. Gray [171]
5) Vaccinium parvifolium Sm. [273]
6) Vaccinium simulatum Small [238]
7) Vaccinium tenellum Aiton [341]
8) Vaccinium uliginosum L. ssp. pedris (HarshA. Berger) S.B. Young [170]
9) Vaccinium vitis-idaea L. ssp. minus (Lodd.) Hultén [259]
10) Vachellia farnesiana (L.) Wight & Arn. [198]

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