Bog Bilberry (Vaccinium uliginosum)

Bog Bilberry

Vaccinium uliginosum (Bog Bilberry or Northern Bilberry) is a flowering plant in the genus Vaccinium.

Vaccinium uliginosum is native to cool temperate regions of the Northern Hemisphere, at low altitudes in the Arctic, and at high altitudes south to the Pyrenees, the Alps, and the Caucasus in Europe, the mountains of Mongolia, northern China and central Japan in Asia, and the Sierra Nevada in California and the Rocky Mountains in Utah in North America.

It grows on wet acidic soils on heathland, moorland, tundra, and in the understory of coniferous forests, from sea level in the Arctic, up to 3,400 metres (11,200 ft) altitude in the south of the range.

The flowers are pendulous, urn-shaped, pale pink, 4-6 mm long, produced in mid spring. The fruit is a dark blue-black berry 5-8 millimetres (0.20-0.31 in) diameter, with a white flesh, edible and sweet when ripe in late summer.

Source: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vaccinium_uliginosum - 07.12.2011

Bog Bilberry

The picture of this blooming Bog Bilberry was taken with midnight sun on Greenland.

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