Vaccinium vitis-idaea L.

Vaccinium vitis-idaea L.

ERICACEAE

- Heath family (Angiosperms - Flowering plants)

Taxon Page:

Name: Vaccinium vitis-idaea L.

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

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Common names

U.S. name: Lingonberry

English name: alpine cranberry

English name: cowberry

French name: airelle vigne-d'Ida

Italian name: Mirtillo rosso

German name: Preiselbeere

Grown habit: Shrub, Subshrub
Duration: Perennial

Synonyms:

Subspecies / Varieties:
1) Vaccinium vitis-idaea L. ssp. minus (Lodd.) Hultén
2) Vaccinium vitis-idaea L. var. minus Lodd.
3) Vaccinium vitis-idaea L. var. punctatum Moench

TAXONOMY

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

Page counter: 1073 ( AVG: 221.02 / 219.716 )

Gallery:

Vaccinium vitis-idaea
Dipartimento di Scienze della Vita, Università di Trieste - Progetto Dryades - Picture by Andrea Moro - Comune di Sappada, tratto superiore della Val Sesis. , BL, Veneto, Italia, - Image licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution Non Commercial Share-Alike 3.0 License

Vaccinium vitis-idaea
Dipartimento di Scienze della Vita, Università di Trieste - Progetto Dryades - Picture by Andrea Moro - Comune di Belluno, Nevegal, pascolo sommitale., BL, Veneto, Italia, - Image licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution Non Commercial Share-Alike 3.0 License

Vaccinium vitis-idaea
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 vitis-idaea
Dipartimento di Scienze della Vita, Università di Trieste - Progetto Dryades - Picture by Andrea Moro - Comune di Sappada, medio tratto della Val Sesis., BL, Veneto, Italia, - Image licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution Non Commercial Share-Alike 3.0 License

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

Vaccinium vitis-idaea
Photo by Leo Michels. Usage: Public Domain

Vaccinium vitis-idaea
Credit: Photo by Angelo Mazzoni

Vaccinium vitis-idaea
Credit: Photo by Daniela Longo

Vaccinium vitis-idaea
Jan Kops et al. - Flora Batava - 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 vitis-idaea
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 vitis-idaea
Dipartimento di Scienze della Vita, Università di Trieste - Progetto Dryades - Picture by Andrea Moro - Comune di Ampezzo, Passo del Pura., UD, Friuli Venezia Giulia, Italia, - Image licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution Non Commercial Share-Alike 3.0 License

Vaccinium vitis-idaea
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 vitis-idaea
Credit: Photo by Franco Giordana

Vaccinium vitis-idaea
Credit: Photo by Angelo Mazzoni

Vaccinium vitis-idaea
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: 697.

Vaccinium vitis-idaea
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 vitis-idaea
Picture modified from Graebner, Paul - Taschenbuch zum Pflanzenbestimmen (1918) - 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 vitis-idaea
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 vitis-idaea
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

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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
- Lichens - Interactive identification keys to the lichens
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Distribution in USA and Canada (*)
USA (AK, CT, MA, ME, MI, MN, NH, VT, WI), CAN (AB, BC, LB, MB, NB, NF, NS, NT, NU, ON, PE, QC, SK, YT), DEN (GL), FRA (SPM)

Distributional map for Vaccinium vitis-idaea L.
Map for Vaccinium vitis-idaea L.
(*) 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 vitis-idaea L. ssp. minus (Lodd.) Hultén [258]
2) Vaccinium vitis-idaea L. var. minus Lodd. [185]
3) Vaccinium vitis-idaea L. var. punctatum Moench [169]
4) Vaccinium x margarettiae Ashe (pro sp.) [233]
5) Vaccinium x nubigenum Fernald (pro sp.) [225]
6) Vagnera amplexicaulis (Nutt.) Greene [152]
7) Valeriana acutiloba Rydb. [340]
8) Valeriana columbiana Piper [221]
9) Valeriana edulis Nutt. ex Torr. & A. Gray var. ciliata (Torr. & A. Gray) Cronquist [266]
10) Valeriana scandens L. var. candolleana (Gard.) C.A. Müll. [excluded] [266]

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