Higher Classification: > Kingdom Plantae > Division Tracheophyta > Subdivision Spermatophytina > Class Magnoliopsida > Superorder Asteranae > Order Ericales > Family Ericaceae > Genus Vaccinium

Vaccinium vitis-idaea L.

Rank: Species
Taxon Status: accepted

Relationships towards this taxon

Genus group names

*Vaccinium*	L.	accepted genus name
*Oxycoccus*	Hill	heterotypic synonym
*Rhodococcum*	(Rupr.) Avrorin	heterotypic synonym
*Vaccinium sect. Rhodococcum*	Rupr.	heterotypic synonym

Species group names

*Rhodococcum vitis-idaea*	(L.) Avrorin	homotypic synonym
*Vaccinium punctatum*	Lam.	heterotypic synonym

Children

Vaccinium vitis-idaea L. subsp. vitis-idaea
Vaccinium vitis-idaea subsp. minor (Lodd.) Hultén

Vernaculars (+) (-)

Catalan: gerdera vermella; mirtil vermell sources: Anthos (2010). Information System of the plants of Spain. Real Jardín Botánico, CSIC - Fundación Biodiversidad. (for names from the Iberian Peninsula and the Balearic Islands).

Dutch: Rode bosbes sources: Dutch Species Register

English: Cowberry sources: Nash, Roisin (FaEu - Ecological Consultancy Services Ltd (Ecoserve))

English-United States: Cowberry sources: Charles Hussey

Galician: arandos colorados; Bódhearc sources: Anthos (2010). Information System of the plants of Spain. Real Jardín Botánico, CSIC - Fundación Biodiversidad. (for names from the Iberian Peninsula and the Balearic Islands).

Georgian: წითელი მოცვი sources: Georgia PESI focal point

Irish: Bódhearc sources: Nash, Roisin (FaEu - Ecological Consultancy Services Ltd (Ecoserve))

Norwegian Bokmål: tyttebær

Norwegian Nynorsk: tyttebær

Portuguese: arando vermelho sources: Anthos (2010). Information System of the plants of Spain. Real Jardín Botánico, CSIC - Fundación Biodiversidad. (for names from the Iberian Peninsula and the Balearic Islands).

Spanish, Castillian: arandano de fruto encarnado; arándano de fruto encarnado; arandano encarnado; arándano encarnado; arandano punteado; arándano punteado; arándano rojo sources: Anthos (2010). Information System of the plants of Spain. Real Jardín Botánico, CSIC - Fundación Biodiversidad. (for names from the Iberian Peninsula and the Balearic Islands).

Swedish: lingon

Welsh: Llus Coch; llusen goch

Literature

nomenclatural reference	L., Sp. Pl. 1753.

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Citation

Valdés, B.; with contributions from Raab-Straube, E. von & Parolly, G. (2009): Ericaceae. – In: Euro+Med Plantbase - the information resource for Euro-Mediterranean plant diversity. Vaccinium vitis-idaea L.. Accessed through: Euro+Med PlantBase at http://ww2.bgbm.org/euroPlusMed/PTaxonDetail.asp?UUID=9EE181DF-1A26-46BC-A868-B16AE532634B

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2009-10-12 by Valdés, B.; with contributions from Raab-Straube, E. von & Parolly, G. (2009): Ericaceae. – In: Euro+Med Plantbase - the information resource for Euro-Mediterranean plant diversity.

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