Vaccinium uliginosum ssp. microphyllum

Vaccinium uliginosum ssp. microphyllum is a dwarf shrub 10-30 cm high, with branchy branches. Leaves are small, 6-15 (25) mm long., Elliptical, often bluntly pointed, sometimes rounded-elliptical, on both surfaces with the finest hairs, more noticeable along the veins on the lower side of the leaf. Pedicels equal in length to the corolla or shorter than it. Globular berries, 7-9 mm in diameter.

 

Habitat. In the northern taiga and forest-tundra, in the subalpine belt of mountains in gravelly lichen, shrub-moss and sedge-moss tundra, in shrub-green moss larch forests and shrub-lichen open spaces.

 

USDA Hardiness Zone (°F): 2 (-50 to -40 °F)