1460 Vaccinium vitis-idaea L.

This widespread species includes t wo subspecies, viz. subsp. vitis-idaea in Eurasia and subsp. minus (Lodd.) Hult. with a circumpolar distribution (Hultén, Circumpol. Il, p. 78 and map 69) and occurring mainly in the arctic regions of Europe and W. and C. Asia, i. e. N of the area of subsp. vitis-idaea. Cf. also Meusel et al. 1978, map p. 330.