Vaccinium oxycoccos L.

ERICACEAE

- Heath family (Angiosperms - Flowering plants)

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Name: Vaccinium oxycoccos L.

Nomencl. ref.: Sp. Pl.: 351 (1753)
Rank: species

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Common names

U.S. name: Small cranberry

English name: cranberry

English name: European cranberry

French name: canneberge commune

Italian name: Mirtillo palustre

German name: Moosbeere

Grown habit: Subshrub, Shrub
Duration: Perennial

Synonyms:
= Oxycoccus hagerupii A. Löve & D. Löve
= Oxycoccus intermedius (A. Gray) Rydb.
= Oxycoccus microcarpos Turcz. ex Rupr.
= Oxycoccus ovalifolius (Michx.) A.E. Porsild
= Oxycoccus oxycoccos (L.) Adolphi
= Oxycoccus oxycoccos (L.) MacMill.
= Oxycoccus palustris Pers.
= Oxycoccus palustris Pers. ssp. microphyllus (Lange) A. Löve & D. Löve
= Oxycoccus palustris Pers. var. intermedius (A. Gray) Howell
= Oxycoccus palustris Pers. var. ovalifolius (Michx.) Seymour
= Oxycoccus quadripetalus Gilib.
= Oxycoccus quadripetalus Gilib. var. microphyllus (Lange) A.E. Porsild
= Vaccinium microcarpos (Turcz. ex Rupr.) Schmalh.
= Vaccinium oxycoccos L. ssp. microphyllum (Lange) J. Feilberg
= Vaccinium oxycoccos L. var. intermedium A. Gray
= Vaccinium oxycoccos L. var. microphyllum (Lange) Rouss. & Raymond
= Vaccinium oxycoccos L. var. ovalifolium Michx.

Subspecies / Varieties:
1) Vaccinium oxycoccos L. ssp. microphyllum (Lange) J. Feilberg
2) Vaccinium oxycoccos L. var. intermedium A. Gray
3) Vaccinium oxycoccos L. var. microphyllum (Lange) Rouss. & Raymond
4) Vaccinium oxycoccos L. var. ovalifolium Michx.

TAXONOMY

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

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Gallery:

Vaccinium oxycoccos
Dipartimento di Scienze della Vita, Università di Trieste - Progetto Dryades - Picture by Andrea Moro - Berlin, Botanischer Garten und Botanisches Museum Berlin-Dahlem, Germania, - Image licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution Non Commercial Share-Alike 3.0 License

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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 oxycoccos
Dipartimento di Scienze della Vita, Università di Trieste - Progetto Dryades - Picture by Andrea Moro - Città di Monaco di Baviera, Botanischer Garten München-Nymphenburg ., Baviera, Germania, - Image licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution Non Commercial Share-Alike 3.0 License

Vaccinium oxycoccos
Dipartimento di Scienze della Vita, Università di Trieste - Progetto Dryades - Picture by Andrea Moro - Image licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution Non Commercial Share-Alike 3.0 License

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

Vaccinium oxycoccos
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 oxycoccos
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: 704.

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- The New Plantfinder - Images and local names of vascular plants - Project Dryades / KeyToNature, coordinated by the Department of Life Sciences, University of Trieste
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Distribution in USA and Canada (*)
USA (AK, CT, ID, IL, IN, MA, MD, ME, MI, MN, NH, NJ, NY, OH, OR, PA, RI, VA, VT, WA, WI, WV), CAN (AB, BC, LB, MB, NB, NF, NS, NT, NU, ON, PE, QC, SK, YT), DEN (GL), FRA (SPM)

Distributional map for Vaccinium oxycoccos 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 oxycoccos L. ssp. microphyllum (Lange) J. Feilberg [140]
2) Vaccinium oxycoccos L. var. intermedium A. Gray [172]
3) Vaccinium oxycoccos L. var. microphyllum (Lange) Rouss. & Raymond [153]
4) Vaccinium pallidum Aiton [398]
5) Vaccinium reticulatum Sm. [1159]
6) Vaccinium stamineum L. [468]
7) Vaccinium stamineum L. var. neglectum (Small) Deam [144]
8) Vaccinium uliginosum L. ssp. gaultherioides (Bigelow) S.B. Young [167]
9) Vaccinium uliginosum L. var. occidentale (A. Gray) H. Hara [159]
10) Vaccinium viride Ashe [141]

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