Taxon:
Vaccinium vitis-idaea L.
Summary
Place of publication:
Sp. pl. 1:351. 1753
Verified:
01/14/2010
ARS Systematic Botanists.
Autonyms (not in current use), synonyms and invalid designations
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Common names
English
alpine cranberry – cowberry – foxberry – lingberry – lingen – lingenberry – lingon – lingonberry – mountain cranberry – partridge-berry – rock cranberry – French
airelle vigne-d'Ida – German
Preiselbeere – Japanese Rōmaji
kokemomo – Swedish
lingon – polarlingon –
Distribution
order_code | Status | Continent | Subcontinent | Country | State | Note |
1 | Native | Asia-Temperate | Caucasus | Armenia | | |
1 | Native | Asia-Temperate | Caucasus | Georgia | | |
1 | Native | Asia-Temperate | Caucasus | Russian Federation | Dagestan | |
1 | Native | Asia-Temperate | China | China | Heilongjiang Sheng | |
1 | Native | Asia-Temperate | China | China | Jilin Sheng | |
1 | Native | Asia-Temperate | China | China | Nei Mongol Zizhiqu | |
1 | Native | Asia-Temperate | China | China | Shanxi Sheng | |
1 | Native | Asia-Temperate | China | China | Xinjiang Uygur Zizhiqu | |
1 | Native | Asia-Temperate | Eastern Asia | Japan | Hokkaidô | |
1 | Native | Asia-Temperate | Eastern Asia | Japan | Honshu | |
1 | Native | Asia-Temperate | Eastern Asia | Japan | Kyushu | |
1 | Native | Asia-Temperate | Eastern Asia | Japan | Shikoku | |
1 | Native | Asia-Temperate | Eastern Asia | Korea | | |
1 | Native | Asia-Temperate | Mongolia | Mongolia | | |
1 | Native | Asia-Temperate | Russian Far East | Russian Federation | Kurile Islands | |
1 | Native | Asia-Temperate | Russian Far East | Russian Federation-Far East | Far East | |
1 | Native | Asia-Temperate | Siberia | Russian Federation | Altay | |
1 | Native | Asia-Temperate | Siberia | Russian Federation | Buryatia | |
1 | Native | Asia-Temperate | Siberia | Russian Federation | Chita | |
1 | Native | Asia-Temperate | Siberia | Russian Federation | Gorno-Altay | |
1 | Native | Asia-Temperate | Siberia | Russian Federation | Irkutsk | |
1 | Native | Asia-Temperate | Siberia | Russian Federation | Kemerovo | |
1 | Native | Asia-Temperate | Siberia | Russian Federation | Krasnoyarsk | |
1 | Native | Asia-Temperate | Siberia | Russian Federation | Kurgan | |
1 | Native | Asia-Temperate | Siberia | Russian Federation | Novosibirsk | |
1 | Native | Asia-Temperate | Siberia | Russian Federation | Omsk | |
1 | Native | Asia-Temperate | Siberia | Russian Federation | Tomsk | |
1 | Native | Asia-Temperate | Siberia | Russian Federation | Tuva | |
1 | Native | Asia-Temperate | Siberia | Russian Federation | Tyumen | |
1 | Native | Asia-Temperate | Siberia | Russian Federation | Yakutia-Sakha | |
1 | Native | Asia-Temperate | Western Asia | Turkey | | n.e. |
1 | Native | Europe | Eastern Europe | Belarus | | |
1 | Native | Europe | Eastern Europe | Estonia | | |
1 | Native | Europe | Eastern Europe | Latvia | | |
1 | Native | Europe | Eastern Europe | Lithuania | | |
1 | Native | Europe | Eastern Europe | Moldova | | |
1 | Native | Europe | Eastern Europe | Russian Federation-European part | European part | |
1 | Native | Europe | Eastern Europe | Ukraine | | |
1 | Native | Europe | Middle Europe | Austria | | |
1 | Native | Europe | Middle Europe | Belgium | | |
1 | Native | Europe | Middle Europe | Czech Republic | | |
1 | Native | Europe | Middle Europe | Germany | | |
1 | Native | Europe | Middle Europe | Hungary | | |
1 | Native | Europe | Middle Europe | Netherlands | | |
1 | Native | Europe | Middle Europe | Poland | | |
1 | Native | Europe | Middle Europe | Slovakia | | |
1 | Native | Europe | Middle Europe | Switzerland | | |
1 | Native | Europe | Northern Europe | Denmark | | |
1 | Native | Europe | Northern Europe | Finland | | |
1 | Native | Europe | Northern Europe | Iceland | | |
1 | Native | Europe | Northern Europe | Ireland | | |
1 | Native | Europe | Northern Europe | Norway | | |
1 | Native | Europe | Northern Europe | Sweden | | |
1 | Native | Europe | Northern Europe | United Kingdom | | |
1 | Native | Europe | Southeastern Europe | Albania | | |
1 | Native | Europe | Southeastern Europe | Bulgaria | | |
1 | Native | Europe | Southeastern Europe | Croatia | | |
1 | Native | Europe | Southeastern Europe | Italy | | |
1 | Native | Europe | Southeastern Europe | Romania | | |
1 | Native | Europe | Southeastern Europe | Serbia | | |
1 | Native | Europe | Southeastern Europe | Slovenia | | |
1 | Native | Europe | Southwestern Europe | France | | |
1 | Native | Northern America | Eastern Canada | Canada | New Brunswick | |
1 | Native | Northern America | Eastern Canada | Canada | Newfoundland and Labrador | |
1 | Native | Northern America | Eastern Canada | Canada | Nova Scotia | |
1 | Native | Northern America | Eastern Canada | Canada | Ontario | |
1 | Native | Northern America | Eastern Canada | Canada | Prince Edward Island | |
1 | Native | Northern America | Eastern Canada | Canada | Québec | |
1 | Native | Northern America | Eastern Canada | St. Pierre and Miquelon | | |
1 | Native | Northern America | North-Central U.S.A. | United States | Minnesota | n. |
1 | Native | Northern America | North-Central U.S.A. | United States | Wisconsin | |
1 | Native | Northern America | Northeastern U.S.A. | United States | Connecticut | |
1 | Native | Northern America | Northeastern U.S.A. | United States | Maine | |
1 | Native | Northern America | Northeastern U.S.A. | United States | Massachusetts | |
1 | Native | Northern America | Northeastern U.S.A. | United States | Michigan | |
1 | Native | Northern America | Northeastern U.S.A. | United States | New Hampshire | n. |
1 | Native | Northern America | Northeastern U.S.A. | United States | Vermont | n. |
1 | Native | Northern America | Subarctic America | Canada | Northwest Territories | |
1 | Native | Northern America | Subarctic America | Canada | Yukon | |
1 | Native | Northern America | Subarctic America | Greenland | | |
1 | Native | Northern America | Subarctic America | United States | Alaska | |
1 | Native | Northern America | Western Canada | Canada | Alberta | |
1 | Native | Northern America | Western Canada | Canada | British Columbia | |
1 | Native | Northern America | Western Canada | Canada | Manitoba | |
1 | Native | Northern America | Western Canada | Canada | Nunavut | |
1 | Native | Northern America | Western Canada | Canada | Saskatchewan | |
Native
Asia-Temperate
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WESTERN ASIA:
Turkey (n.e.)
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CAUCASUS:
Armenia, Georgia, Russian Federation [Dagestan]
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SIBERIA:
Russian Federation [Buryatia, Gorno-Altay, Tuva, Yakutia-Sakha, Altay, Krasnoyarsk, Chita, Irkutsk, Kemerovo, Kurgan, Novosibirsk, Omsk, Tomsk, Tyumen]
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MONGOLIA:
Mongolia
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RUSSIAN FAR EAST:
Russian Federation-Far East [Far East], Russian Federation [Kurile Islands]
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CHINA:
China [Heilongjiang Sheng, Jilin Sheng, Shanxi Sheng, Nei Mongol Zizhiqu, Xinjiang Uygur Zizhiqu]
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EASTERN ASIA:
Korea, Japan [Hokkaidô, Honshu, Kyushu, Shikoku]
Europe
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NORTHERN EUROPE:
Denmark, Finland, United Kingdom, Ireland, Iceland, Norway, Sweden
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MIDDLE EUROPE:
Austria, Belgium, Switzerland, Czech Republic, Germany, Hungary, Netherlands, Poland, Slovakia
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EASTERN EUROPE:
Russian Federation-European part [European part], Belarus, Estonia, Lithuania, Latvia, Moldova, Ukraine
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SOUTHEASTERN EUROPE:
Albania, Bulgaria, Croatia, Italy, Romania, Serbia, Slovenia
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SOUTHWESTERN EUROPE:
France
Northern America
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SUBARCTIC AMERICA:
Canada [Northwest Territories, Yukon], Greenland, United States [Alaska]
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EASTERN CANADA:
Canada [Québec, Nova Scotia, Ontario, Prince Edward Island, New Brunswick, Newfoundland and Labrador], St. Pierre and Miquelon
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WESTERN CANADA:
Canada [Saskatchewan, Alberta, Manitoba, British Columbia, Nunavut]
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NORTHEASTERN U.S.A.:
United States [Connecticut, Maine, Massachusetts, Michigan, New Hampshire (n.), Vermont (n.)]
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NORTH-CENTRAL U.S.A.:
United States [Minnesota (n.), Wisconsin]
Economic Uses
Usage | Type | Note | Reference |
Human food | fruit | | Markle, G. M. et al., eds. 1998. Food and feed crops of the United States, ed. 2 |
Medicines | folklore | | Duke, J. A. et al. 2002. CRC Handbook of medicinal herbs |
Medicines | folklore | | McGuffin, M., J. T. Kartesz, A. Y. Leung, & A. O. Tucker. 2000. Herbs of commerce, ed. 2 American Herbal Products Association, Silver Spring, Maryland. |