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Taxon:  Vaccinium vitis-idaea L.



Summary
Genus:
Vaccinium
Section:
Vitis-Idaea
Family:
Ericaceae
Subfamily:
Vaccinioideae
Tribe:
Vaccinieae
Nomen number:
41069
Place of publication:
Sp. pl. 1:351. 1753
Verified:
01/14/2010 ARS Systematic Botanists.
Accessions:
0 (0  active, 0  available) in National Plant Germplasm System. 
Other conspecific taxa
Autonyms (not in current use), synonyms and invalid designations
Heterotypic Synonym(s)
Vaccinium vitis-idaea L. subsp. minus (hort. Lodd.) Hulten
Vaccinium vitis-idaea L. var. minus hort. Lodd.
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Reference(s)
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    • based on Alden, B. & S. Ryman. 2005-: SKUD (Swedish Utility and Cultivated Plants Database)
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Common names
English
alpine cranberry –
cowberry –
foxberry –
lingberry –
lingen –
lingenberry –
lingon –
lingonberry –
mountain cranberry –
partridge-berry –
rock cranberry –
French
airelle vigne-d'Ida –
German
Preiselbeere –
Japanese Rōmaji
kokemomo –
Swedish
lingon –
polarlingon –
Distribution
Native
Asia-Temperate
  • CAUCASUS: Armenia, Georgia, Russian Federation [Dagestan]
  • CHINA: China [Heilongjiang, Jilin, Shanxi, Nei Monggol, Xinjiang]
  • EASTERN ASIA: Korea, Japan [Hokkaido, Honshu, Kyushu, Shikoku]
  • MONGOLIA: Mongolia
  • RUSSIAN FAR EAST: Russian Federation-Far East [Far East], Russian Federation [Kurile Islands]
  • SIBERIA: Russian Federation [Altay, Buryatia, Chita, Gorno-Altay, Irkutsk, Kemerovo, Krasnoyarsk, Kurgan, Novosibirsk, Omsk, Tomsk, Tuva, Tyumen, Yakutia-Sakha]
  • WESTERN ASIA: Turkey (n.e.)
Europe
  • EAST EUROPE: Russian Federation-European part [European part], Belarus, Estonia, Lithuania, Latvia, Moldova, Ukraine
  • MIDDLE EUROPE: Austria, Belgium, Switzerland, Czech Republic, Germany, Hungary, Netherlands, Poland, Slovakia
  • NORTHERN EUROPE: Denmark, Finland, United Kingdom, Ireland, Iceland, Norway, Sweden
  • SOUTHEASTERN EUROPE: Albania, Bulgaria, Croatia, Italy, Romania, Serbia, Slovenia
  • SOUTHWESTERN EUROPE: France
Northern America
  • EASTERN CANADA: Canada [Quebec, Nova Scotia, Ontario, Prince Edward Island, New Brunswick, Newfoundland], St. Pierre and Miquelon
  • NORTH-CENTRAL U.S.A.: United States [Minnesota (n.), Wisconsin]
  • NORTHEASTERN U.S.A.: United States [Connecticut, Maine, Massachusetts, Michigan, New Hampshire (n.), Vermont (n.)]
  • SUBARCTIC AMERICA: Canada [Northwest Territory, Yukon Territory], Greenland, United States [Alaska]
  • WESTERN CANADA: Canada [Saskatchewan, Alberta, Manitoba, British Columbia, Nunavut]
Economic Uses
Human food
Medicines
folklore (fide CRC MedHerbs ed2; Herbs Commerce ed2) –


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