| Family | ERICACEAE |
| Genus species | Vaccinium microcarpum (Turcz. ex Rupr.) Schmalh. |
| Bibliography | Trudy Imp. S.-Peterburgsk. Obshch. Estestvoisp., Vyp. 3, Otd. Bot. 2: 149 (1871) |
| Native Range | Subarctic & Temperate Northern Hemisphere |
| Primary Biome | Temperate |
| Habitat | bogs, marshes |
| Description | leaves dense, ovate or elliptic, coriaceous, glabrous, revolute, entire, acute, flowers of 1-2, terminal, long pedicellate, tetramerous, glabrous |
| Size | 5-10cm |
| Color | rose |
| Bloom | summer |
| Ca | |
| Type | subshrub |
| Cultivation | very moist to boggy, semi-shady site alpine house, moist, humous, sandy soil, semi-shade |
| Propagation | seed in spring, uncovered, germ. 3-6 months, 13-18°C cuttings in late summer and fall; layering in spring |
| Synonyms | Oxycoccus microcarpus Turcz. ex Rupr. Oxycoccus microcarpus f. bulboidaeus Lekav. & Butkus Oxycoccus microcarpus f. elongatus Lekav. & Butkus Oxycoccus microcarpus var. kirigaminensis Honda & Tobita Oxycoccus palustris ssp. microcarpus (Turcz. ex Rupr.) Nyman Oxycoccus palustris var. pusillus Dunal Oxycoccus pusillus (Dunal) Nakai Oxycoccus quadripetalus ssp. microcarpus (Turcz. ex Rupr.) Schinz & R.Keller Vaccinium microcarpum f. kirigaminense (Honda & Tobita) Yonek. Vaccinium oxycoccos f. microcarpum (Turcz. ex Rupr.) Turcz. ex P.Stormer Vaccinium oxycoccos var. microcarpum (Turcz. ex Rupr.) Asch. & Graebn. Vaccinium oxycoccos ssp. microcarpum (Turcz. ex Rupr.) A.Blytt |
| Territory | 0 Circumpolar 1 Europe 10 Northern Europe (FIN Finland, GRB Great Britain, ICE Iceland, NOR Norway, SWE Sweden) 11 Middle Europe (AUT Austria, CZE Czechoslovakia, GER Germany, POL Poland, SWI Switzerland) 13 Southeastern Europe (ITA Italy, ROM Romania, YUG Yugoslavia) 14 Eastern Europe (BLR Belarus, BLT Baltic States, RUC Central European Russia, RUE East European Russia, RUN North European Russia, RUW Northwest European Russia, UKR Ukraine) 3 Asia-Temperate 30 Siberia (ALT Altay, BRY Buryatiya, CTA Chita, IRK Irkutsk, KRA Krasnoyarsk, TVA Tuva, WSB West Siberia, YAK Yakutskiya) 31 Russian Far East (AMU Amur, KAM Kamchatka, KHA Khabarovsk, KUR Kuril Is., PRM Primorye, SAK Sakhalin) 32 Middle Asia (KAZ Kazakhstan) 36 China (CHI Inner Mongolia, CHM Manchuria) 37 Mongolia 38 Eastern Asia (JAP Japan) 7 Northern America 70 Subarctic America (ALU Aleutian Is., ASK Alaska, NWT Northwest Territories) 71 Western Canada (ABT Alberta, BRC British Columbia) |