Common bilberry
Vaccinium myrtillus L.
- light
- —
- water
- —
- tall
- 30 cm
- wide
- —
Ericaceae
Also called Blaeberry, Blue whortleberry, Hurtleberry, Whortleberry, Bilberry
Formerly Vitis-idaea myrtillus
When it flowers
Not known yet in the tropics: too few flowering observations to read a season from.
Read from iNaturalist photographs of it in flower. A month counts at 50% of the best month's flowering share (smoothed over three months) and 10% of its flowering count, from at least 100 flowering observations in the band.
If a child, a pet or anyone may have eaten a plant, contact a doctor or vet straight away, or call the National Poisons Information Centre (AIIMS, New Delhi) on 1800 116 117, free and open 24 hours.
Something wrong with it?About it
- Grows as
- SubshrubKew's checklist, not yet checked
- Climate
- TemperateKew's checklist, not yet checked
- Wild in
- Greenland, Temp. Eurasia, W. Canada to NW. & WC. U.S.A.Kew's checklist, not yet checked
- Height
- 10 cm to 51 cmRead from Wikipedia, one source
- Flowers
- White, pinkRead from Wikipedia, one source
Not known yet: light, spread, water, coldest it survives, heat, hottest it survives.
In other languages (12)
- German
- Heidelbeere, Blaubeere, Blaubeere, Heidelbeere
- Finnish
- mustikka, kangasmustikka
- Russian
- Черника обыкновенная
- Norwegian Bokmål
- Blåbær
- French
- Myrtille, myrtille commune
- Swedish
- Blåbär
- Catalan
- Nabiu
- Slovenian
- Navadna borovnica, borovnica, črnica
- Dutch
- Blauwe Bosbes, blauwe bosbes, Blauwe bosbes
- Czech
- borůvka, brusnice borůvka
- Danish
- Blåbær
- Estonian
- harilik mustikas
Where this comes from
- iNaturalist, read 2026-10-25, CC0-1.0 (observation counts)
- Wikidata, read 2026-10-25, CC0-1.0
- Kew's checklist, read 2026-10-24, CC-BY-4.0
- Wikipedia, read 2026-10-25, fact, cited
- Wikimedia Commons, read 2026-10-25, Public domain
- iNaturalist, read 2026-10-25, CC BY
- iNaturalist, read 2026-10-25, CC BY
- iNaturalist, read 2026-10-25, CC BY
- 3D model: Vaccinium myrtillus (built for Vanagrha) by Vanagrha, own
A fact “checked by a majority of its sources” was settled by a vote of the pages it was read from, not by a person reading it; one marked “one source” rests on that page alone. Anything else not marked checked has not been checked yet. Where nothing is known, the page says so rather than guess.