Plants often ascending, shoots 0.4–1.5 dm. Leaf blades glaucous abaxially, green adaxially, usually narrowly elliptic to elliptic, rarely oblong, 5–18 × 2–55 mm, margins entire, slightly revolute. Inflorescences in axils of leaflike bracts at base of current year’s shoots. Pedicels nodding, slender, 2–3 cm, bracteolate; bracteoles 2, greenish white, scalelike, 1–2 mm wide. Flowers: calyx lobes relatively small; corolla strongly reflexed at anthesis, white to pink; filaments hairy; anther tubules 1–2 mm. Berries red to pink, 9–14 mm diam., smooth. 2n = 24.
Phenology
Flowering late spring–early summer
Altitude range
0–1400 m
Distribution
St. Pierre and Miquelonintroduced in Europe.USA Conn.USA Del.USA D.C.USA Ill.USA Ind.USA MaineUSA Md.USA Mass.USA Mich.USA Minn.USA N.H.USA N.J.USA N.Y.USA N.C.USA OhioUSA Oreg.USA Pa.USA R.I.USA Tenn.USA Vt.USA Va.USA Wash.USA W.Va.USA Wis.Canada B.C.Canada N.B.Canada Nfld. and Labr. (Nfld.)Canada N.S.Canada Ont.Canada P.E.I.Canada Que.
Discussion
Vaccinium macrocarpon is introduced and escaping elsewhere (British Columbia, Oregon, Washington) with respect to its normal range in eastern North America.
