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Vaccinium uliginosum, Linn. Bog Bilberry. A low spreading much-branched shrub, 1/4 – 1 1/2 ft. high: lvs. thickish, obovate or oval, obtuse or retuse, 1/2 - 1 in. long, entire, nearly sessile, pale and glaucous on both sides, slightly pubescent beneath: fls. 2-4 together or sometimes solitary; calyx 4-parted, rarely 5-parted; corolla urn-shaped, 2-5-lobed, pink: berries bluish black with a bloom. Arctic and alpine N. Amer., Eu., and Asia. B.B. 2:576.—"The plant is useful for the shrubbery border in cold wet acid situations and its fr., though of poor quality, is used for food by the natives of the Northwest."
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