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§1 Plant
Vaccinium cespitosum Michx.
vernacular dwarf bilberry — species · Ericaceae
§2Habit & range
Habit and range
- Growth habit
- Shrub, Subshrub
- Duration
- Perennial
- Group
- Dicot
- Family
- Ericaceae Juss.
- Genus
- Vaccinium
§2a
Native status, by region
- AK Alaska Native
- CAN Canada Native
- L48 Lower 48 States Native
§2b
County-level range
· 177 counties across 18 states/territories§3Cultivation specs · USDA
Recorded by the USDA Plant Materials Program.
§3a
Tolerances
- Drought
- Low
- Shade
- Low
- Moisture use
- High
- Fire
- High
- Salinity
- None
- Anaerobic
- None
- CaCO₃
- None
- Hedging
- High
§3b
Climate & soil
- Cold tolerance
- -33 °F minimum
- Frost-free days
- 100 min.
- Precipitation
- 19–69 in/yr
- pH range
- 5–7
- Root depth
- 12 in min.
- Fertility need
- Low
- Soil texture
- coarse, medium
§3c
Form & growth
- Growth form
- Rhizomatous
- Growth rate
- Moderate
- Lifespan
- Moderate
- Mature height
- 1 ft
- Foliage texture
- Coarse
- Foliage colour
- Green
- Porosity (summer)
- Dense
- Porosity (winter)
- Porous
- Flower colour
- Red
- Fruit colour
- Black
- Fire resistant
- No
- N fixation
- None
- Toxicity
- None
§3d
Reproduction
- Bloom period
- Early Summer
- Seed abundance
- High
- Seed begins
- Summer
- Seed ends
- Fall
- Spread rate
- Rapid
- Stratify
- No
- Seeds / lb
- 5,000,000
- Propagation
- seed, cuttings, bare root, container
§3e
Use & availability
- Commercial availability
- Contracting Only
- Nursery stock
- Yes
- Browse palatability
- Low
- Graze palatability
- Low
- Palatable, human
- Yes
- Protein potential
- Low
- Lumber
- No
- Christmas tree
- No
§4Counties, by state
Recorded in 177 counties across 18 states/territories.
Alaska view state ↗ 10 N ▾
California view state ↗ 23 N ▾
- Alpine 06003
- Amador 06005
- Butte 06007
- Del Norte 06015
- El Dorado 06017
- Fresno 06019
- Humboldt 06023
- Inyo 06027
- Lake 06033
- Lassen 06035
- Madera 06039
- Marin 06041
- Mariposa 06043
- Modoc 06049
- Nevada 06057
- Plumas 06063
- San Mateo 06081
- Shasta 06089
- Siskiyou 06093
- Sonoma 06097
- Trinity 06105
- Tulare 06107
- Tuolumne 06109
Colorado view state ↗ 21 N ▾
Idaho view state ↗ 16 N ▾
Maine view state ↗ 10 N ▾
Michigan view state ↗ 4 N ▾
Minnesota view state ↗ 10 N ▾
Montana view state ↗ 8 N ▾
Nevada view state ↗ 1 N ▾
New Hampshire view state ↗ 3 N ▾
New Mexico view state ↗ 1 N ▾
New York view state ↗ 3 N ▾
Oregon view state ↗ 20 N ▾
Utah view state ↗ 10 N ▾
Vermont view state ↗ 4 N ▾
Washington view state ↗ 20 N ▾
Wisconsin view state ↗ 10 N ▾
Wyoming view state ↗ 3 N ▾
§5Sources & provenance
USDA PLANTS
Symbol, taxonomy, distribution, cultivation specs, native status. Public domain.
plants.usda.gov/VACE ↗GBIF Backbone
Canonical taxonomic identity, synonym resolution, cross-refs. CC0.
gbif.org/species/2882861 ↗Record version
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