Vaccinium vitis-idaea is a small evergreen shrub in the heath family, Ericaceae. It is known colloquially as the lingonberry, partridgeberry, [a] foxberry, mountain cranberry, or cowberry. It is native to boreal forest and Arctic tundra throughout the Northern Hemisphere.

Vaccinium vitis-idaea, commonly called lingonberry, is a short, mat-forming, evergreen shrub native to boreal pine forests, rocky barrens, bog edges, heaths, arctic tundra, and mountain slopes in the northern reaches of Europe, Asia, and North America.

SPECIES: Vaccinium vitis-idaea GENERAL BOTANICAL CHARACTERISTICS: Lingonberry is a low, creeping, evergreen subshrub that commonly reaches 2 to 6 inches (5-15 cm) in height [ 4 , 90 , 114 ]. It typically grows in dense rhizomatous colonies and frequently forms mats [ 106 ].

Vaccinium vitis-idaea (Lingonberry) is a versatile and beneficial plant, offering year-round visual interest, culinary value, and ecological benefits, making it a favored choice in colder climates worldwide.

Evergreen ground cover, 6-12 inches (15-30 cm). Spreads by underground runners. Leaves alternate, oval to obovate, 0.9-2.5 cm long, often notched at apex, leathery, lustrous green upper, lower surface spiked with brown/black dots (glands). Small bell-shaped flowers are white to pink in spring, borne terminally.

Vaccinium vitis-idaea (lingonberry, partridgeberry, mountain cranberry or cowberry) is a short evergreen shrub in the heath family that bears edible fruit, native to boreal forest and Arctic tundra throughout the Northern Hemisphere from Eurasia to North America.

Short raceme of 3 to 10 stalked, nodding flowers at the tips of 1-year-old branches. Flowers are bell shaped, ¼ inch or less long and about as wide, white to pinkish with 4 petals fused for at least half their length, the triangular tips curled back. Inside the bell is a ring of stamens around a single, slender style.

Lingonberry (Vaccinium vitis-idaea L.) is a small red berry of the Ericaceae family and the genus Vaccinium. They grow wild in Northern countries’ forests, Central Europe, Russia, and Canada [1].

2024年12月26日 · Lingonberry, (Vaccinium vitis-idaea), small creeping plant of the heath family (Ericaceae), related to the blueberry and cranberry. Lingonberry plants are found throughout the Northern Hemisphere in boreal forests and tundra regions. The red fruit is used for jelly and juice by northern Europeans.

Plants densely colonial, frequently mat-forming; twigs of previous year green, terete, puberulent, not verrucose. Leaf blades pale and glandular abaxially, bright green adaxially, elliptic to obovate, 5-18 × 3-9 mm, glaucous-coriaceous, margins entire, slightly revolute. Pedicels 4-6 mm. Flowers: corolla pinkish white, 3-5 mm; filaments puberulent.