1461 Vaccinium uliginosum L.

This widespread, polymorphic species includes same lower taxa mapped here, viz. subsp. uliginosum, mainly a lowland plant in Eurasia, subsp. alpinum (Bigel.) Hult., a subarctic-boreal plant in Eurasia and large areas of N. America, subsp. microphyllum Lge, an arctic, partly high-montane plant in Eurasia and N. America, and subsp. occidentale (A. Gray) Hult. in western N. America. The species s. lat. belongs to the circumpolar plants, as do the subspp. alpinum and microphyllum (Hultén, Circumpol. Il, p. 332f. and map 70). Cf. also Meusel et al. 1978, map p. 330.