Lingonberry
लिंगौबेरीവാക്സിനിയം വിറ്റിസ്-ഐഡൈയെকাউবেরি
Vaccinium vitis-idaea L.
- light
- Part sun
- water
- Medium
- tall
- 25 cm
- wide
- —
Ericaceae
Also called Cowberry, Mountain cranberry, Lowbush Cranberry, Redberry, Partridge-berry
Formerly Myrtillus exigua, Rhodococcum hybridum, Rhodococcum minus, Rhodococcum vitis-idaea, and 9 more
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
- Subarctic & Temp. Northern HemisphereKew's checklist, not yet checked
- Light
- Part shade (3 to 6 h)Read from Wikipedia, one source
- Height
- 10 cm to 41 cmRead from Wikipedia, one source
- Water
- Average: moist, well drainedRead from Wikipedia, one source
- Flowers
- White, pinkRead from Wikipedia, one source
- Coldest it survives
- -45 °C (USDA zone 2a)Read from Wikipedia, one source
Not known yet: spread, heat, hottest it survives.
In other languages (12)
- root
- VACVIT, jokŋa, Kakax̂
- German
- Preiselbeere, Preißelbeere
- Russian
- Брусника
- Finnish
- puolukka, taigapuolukka
- Catalan
- Nabiu vermell
- Swedish
- Lingon
- French
- Airelle rouge, Vigne du mont Ida, airelle rouge
- Dutch
- Rode Bosbes, Vossenbes, rode bosbes
- Czech
- brusinka, brusnice brusinka
- Norwegian Bokmål
- tyttebær, tytebær
- Danish
- Tyttebær
- Estonian
- harilik pohl, palukas
Where this comes from
- iNaturalist, read 2026-10-26, CC0-1.0 (observation counts)
- Wikidata, read 2026-10-26, 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 2026-10-26, CC BY
- iNaturalist, read 2026-10-26, CC BY
- iNaturalist, read 2026-10-26, CC BY
- 3D model: Vaccinium vitis-idaea (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.