Vaccinium cespitosum Michx.

dwarf bilberry

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Subshrub, Shrub

Perennial

Vascular

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Camp (1942) recognized V. cespitosum as well as various other closely related species. Kartesz (1994) lumped some of these species and recognized two varieties (var. cespitosum and paludicola) under V. cespitosum of which, only var. cespitosum is known from New York. Further work on section Myrtillus by Vander Kloet and Dickinson (1999) also resulted in the lumping of many of the taxa Camp recognized and left V. cespitosum without any subspecific taxa. When Michaux (1803) first published this name he spelled the specific epithet "cespitosum". Some authors (Camp 1942, Vander Kloet and Dickinson 1999) have altered the spelling to "caespitosum" but article 60 of the International Code of Botanical Nomenclature (McNeill et al. 2006) clearly states that the original spelling is to be retained.

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Native Endangered-State S1 (State Rank) G5T5 (Global Rank)

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