Arctostaphylos uva-ursi (L.) Spreng.

Arctostaphylos uva-ursi (L.) Spreng.

ERICACEAE

- Heath family (Angiosperms - Flowering plants)

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Name: Arctostaphylos uva-ursi (L.) Spreng.

Nomencl. ref.: Syst. Veg. 2: 287 (1825)
Rank: species

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Common names

U.S. name: Kinnikinnick

English name: bear-grape

English name: bearberry

Spanish name: gayuba

French name: raisin d'ours

Italian name: Uva ursina

German name: Bärentraube

Grown habit: Subshrub, Shrub
Duration: Perennial

Synonyms:
= Arctostaphylos adenotricha (Fernald & J.F. Macbr.) A. Löve & D. Löve & Kapoor
= Arctostaphylos uva-ursi (L.) Spreng. ssp. adenotricha (Fernald & J.F. Macbr.) Calder & Roy L. Taylor
= Arctostaphylos uva-ursi (L.) Spreng. ssp. coactilis (Fernald & J.F. Macbr.) A. Löve & D. Löve & Kapoor
= Arctostaphylos uva-ursi (L.) Spreng. ssp. longipilosa Packer & Denford
= Arctostaphylos uva-ursi (L.) Spreng. ssp. monoensis J.B. Roof
= Arctostaphylos uva-ursi (L.) Spreng. ssp. stipitata Packer & Denford
= Arctostaphylos uva-ursi (L.) Spreng. var. adenotricha Fernald & J.F. Macbr.
= Arctostaphylos uva-ursi (L.) Spreng. var. coactilis Fernald & J.F. Macbr.
= Arctostaphylos uva-ursi (L.) Spreng. var. leobreweri J.B. Roof
= Arctostaphylos uva-ursi (L.) Spreng. var. marinensis J.B. Roof
= Arctostaphylos uva-ursi (L.) Spreng. var. pacifica Hultén
= Arctostaphylos uva-ursi (L.) Spreng. var. stipitata (Packer & Denford) Dorn
= Arctostaphylos uva-ursi (L.) Spreng. var. suborbiculata W. Knight
= Uva-Ursi uva-ursi (L.) Britton

TAXONOMY

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

Page counter: 2115 ( AVG: 221.06 / 219.747 )

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Dipartimento di Scienze della Vita, Università di Trieste - Progetto Dryades - Picture by Andrea Moro - Comune di Cogne, località Valnontey, Giardino botanico alpino Paradisia., AO, Valle d'Aosta, Italia, - Image licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution Non Commercial Share-Alike 3.0 License

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Dipartimento di Scienze della Vita, Università di Trieste - Progetto Dryades - Picture by Andrea Moro - Comune di Ampezzo, Passo del Pura, nei pressi dell'omonimo rifugio, ai marginio di un bosco., UD, FVG, Italia, - Image licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution Non Commercial Share-Alike 3.0 License

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Dipartimento di Scienze della Vita, Università di Trieste - Progetto Dryades - Picture by Andrea Moro - Comune di Ampezzo, al margine della strada che conduce al Passo Pura, UD, Friuli Venezia Giulia, Italia, - Image licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution Non Commercial Share-Alike 3.0 License

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Arctostaphylos uva-ursi
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Arctostaphylos uva-ursi
Otto Wilhelm Thomé: Flora von Deutschland, Österreich und der Schweiz (1885) - 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".

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Arctostaphylos uva-ursi
Credit: Photo by Gianluca Nicolella - http://www.actaplantarum.org

Arctostaphylos uva-ursi
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'.

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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".

Arctostaphylos uva-ursi
Credit: Photo by Enrico Romani

Arctostaphylos uva-ursi
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

Arctostaphylos uva-ursi
Credit: Photo by Pino Perino - Villorba (TV)

Arctostaphylos uva-ursi
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: 693.

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Distribution in USA and Canada (*)
USA (AK, AZ, CA, CO, CT, DE, IA, ID, IL, IN, MA, ME, MI, MN, MT, ND, NH, NJ, NM, NV, NY, OH, OR, PA, RI, SD, UT, VA, VT, WA, WI, WY), CAN (AB, BC, LB, MB, NB, NF, NS, NT, NU, ON, PE, QC, SK, YT), DEN (GL), FRA (SPM)

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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) Arctostaphylos uva-ursi (L.) Spreng. ssp. coactilis (Fernald & J.F. Macbr.) A. Löve & D. Löve & Kapoor [208]
2) Arctostaphylos uva-ursi (L.) Spreng. ssp. longipilosa Packer & Denford [171]
3) Arctostaphylos uva-ursi (L.) Spreng. ssp. myrtifolia (Parry) J.B. Roof [185]
4) Arctostaphylos uva-ursi (L.) Spreng. var. marinensis J.B. Roof [185]
5) Arctotheca calendula (L.) Levyns [610]
6) Ardisia crenata Sims [711]
7) Ardisia polycephala auct. non Wall. ex A. DC. [228]
8) Arenaria arctica Stev. ex Ser. [92]
9) Arenaria congesta Nutt. [396]
10) Arenaria eastwoodiae Rydb. var. adenophora Kearney & Peebles [370]

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