Bog bilberry
Vaccinium uliginosum L.
- light
- —
- water
- Plenty
- tall
- 43 cm
- wide
- —
Ericaceae
Also called Alpine Blueberry, Bog blueberry, Alpine bilberry, Bog Whortleberry, Northern bilberry
Formerly Myrtillus uliginosus
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
- Subshrub or shrubKew's checklist, not yet checked
- Climate
- Subalpine or subarcticKew's checklist, not yet checked
- Wild in
- Subarctic & Temp. Northern HemisphereKew's checklist, not yet checked
- Height
- 10 cm to 76 cmRead from Wikipedia, one source
- Water
- Plenty: wet or constantly moistRead from Wikipedia, one source
- Flowers
- PinkRead from Wikipedia, one source
Not known yet: light, spread, coldest it survives, heat, hottest it survives.
In other languages (12)
- Spanish
- Arándano negro, arándano, arandano de fruto negro
- root
- VACULI, Көк-кат, Llusen y gors
- Catalan
- nabinera alpina, nabinera negra, Nabiu negre
- German
- Rauschbeere, Gewöhnliche Rauschbeere, Trunkelbeere
- French
- Airelle des marais, Myrtille des marais, Myrtille des loups
- Russian
- Голубика, голубика, гонобобель
- Swedish
- Odon
- Dutch
- Rijsbes, Moerasbes, Veenbosbes
- Czech
- vlochyně, brusnice vlochyně, vlochyně bahenní
- Norwegian Bokmål
- blokkebær, Blokkebær, Mikkelsbær
- Danish
- Mose-bølle, Mosebølle, Mose-Bølle
- Estonian
- sinikas, Joovikas, Rukkisinikas
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, CC BY-SA 2.5
- iNaturalist, read 2026-10-25, CC BY
- iNaturalist, read 2026-10-25, CC BY-SA
- iNaturalist, read 2026-10-25, CC BY
- 3D model: Vaccinium uliginosum (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.