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Vaccinium uliginosum L.

12 photos.
A small, semi-prostrate to erect, branching, deciduous shrub with a variety of common names
such as "bog blueberry", "bog bilberry", "bog whortleberry", "alpine blueberry", "northern bilberry",
"moorberry" and so on.

ITIS Taxonomic Serial No. 23574


1.  Mid-June.  Blooming shrub photographed from below.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 


2.  Late May.  Branches in bud.

3.  Mid June.  Blossom cluster.  Note the
lack of leaves.

4.  Mid June.  A semi-prostrate shrub
with white blossoms.

5.  Mid-June.  Branches heavily loaded
with blossoms.

6.  Mid-June.  Another branch with blossoms.
Note the transition on the branch to a woody
stem and also the red color on the margins
and veins of the leaves.

7.  Late June.  A single blossom among reddish
leaves.

8.  Mid-June.  A plant with red leaves.

9.  Early July.  Ripening berries.

10.  Early July.  A small shrub with ripening
berries nearly hidden in the grass.

11.  Early September.  Shriveled berries on
a shrub with red fall leaves.  The berries
shrivel after a frost.


12.  Early September.  Leaves in fall color.


 

Photos 1-3 taken along Upper
Bottom Dollar Road.
65°  25.5' N,   144°  49.4' W
Elev. 2000 ft.

Photo 4 near upper Half Dollar
Creek.
65° 25.51' N, 144° 46.60' W
Elev. 2000 ft.

Photos 5 and 8 taken 1.5 miles northeast
of Portage Summit.
65° 26.46' N, 144° 47.50' W
Elev. 2650 ft.

Photo 6 taken on Portage Summit
65° 25.75' N, 144° 44.25' W
Elev. 2600 ft.

Photo 7 taken along small road
on Eagle Summit.
65° 29.05' N,  145 °24.10' W
Elev. 3750 ft.

Photos 9 and 10 taken in a bog next to a thaw
lake south of 134 mile Steese
Highway
65° 35.60' N, 144° 36.80' W
Elev. 900 ft.

Photo 11 taken near 8.4 mile
Portage Creek road.
65° 25.76' N, 144° 46.65' W
Elev. 2200 ft.

Photo 12 taken near 5.2 mile
Portage Creek road.
65° 26.28' N, 144° 41.04' W
Elev. 1800 ft