{"id":1441,"date":"2020-05-14T22:36:55","date_gmt":"2020-05-15T05:36:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/alpineplants\/?p=1441"},"modified":"2020-06-24T19:25:14","modified_gmt":"2020-06-25T02:25:14","slug":"vaccinium-ovalifolium","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/alpineplants\/2020\/05\/14\/vaccinium-ovalifolium\/","title":{"rendered":"<em>Vaccinium ovalifolium<\/em> Sm."},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-1442 aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/alpineplants\/files\/2020\/05\/CA54A81D-3BCF-41D1-8126-F6E14EE0D29F-scaled.jpeg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2560\" height=\"1696\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/alpineplants\/files\/2020\/05\/CA54A81D-3BCF-41D1-8126-F6E14EE0D29F-scaled.jpeg 2560w, https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/alpineplants\/files\/2020\/05\/CA54A81D-3BCF-41D1-8126-F6E14EE0D29F-300x199.jpeg 300w, https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/alpineplants\/files\/2020\/05\/CA54A81D-3BCF-41D1-8126-F6E14EE0D29F-1024x678.jpeg 1024w, https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/alpineplants\/files\/2020\/05\/CA54A81D-3BCF-41D1-8126-F6E14EE0D29F-768x509.jpeg 768w, https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/alpineplants\/files\/2020\/05\/CA54A81D-3BCF-41D1-8126-F6E14EE0D29F-1536x1017.jpeg 1536w, https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/alpineplants\/files\/2020\/05\/CA54A81D-3BCF-41D1-8126-F6E14EE0D29F-2048x1356.jpeg 2048w, https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/alpineplants\/files\/2020\/05\/CA54A81D-3BCF-41D1-8126-F6E14EE0D29F-620x411.jpeg 620w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2560px) 100vw, 2560px\" \/><\/p>\n<p><strong>Common name: <\/strong>Oval-leaved blueberry<\/p>\n<p><strong>Family:<\/strong> Ericaceae<\/p>\n<p><strong>Information<\/strong>: This species is a dwarf shrub, with edible berries. It grows in moist forest and open habitats areas from mid to subalpine elevations (Pojar &amp; MacKinnon 2014).<\/p>\n<p><strong>Photos<\/strong>:<\/p>\n<p>Top: In the alpine of Manning Park at an approx. elevation of 1950m. N. Hewitt, July 9 2019.<\/p>\n<p>Bottom: Along a trail leading to Elfin Lakes, BC near Mt. Garibaldi. N. Hewitt, Aug 17 2018.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><strong>Sources and additional resources<\/strong>:<\/p>\n<p>Klinkenberg, Brian. (Ed.) 2020. <em>E-Flora BC: Electronic Atlas of the Plants of British Columbia<\/em> [eflora.bc.ca]. <a href=\"http:\/\/linnet.geog.ubc.ca\/Atlas\/Atlas.aspx?sciname=Vaccinium%20ovalifolium\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">http:\/\/linnet.geog.ubc.ca\/Atlas\/Atlas.aspx?sciname=Vaccinium%20ovalifolium<\/a>. Accessed: <span id=\"lblServerTime\">2020-06-24.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>Pojar, J. &amp; MacKinnon, A. (2014).\u00a0Plants of Coastal British Columbia: Including Washington, Oregon &amp; Alaska.\u00a0Vancouver: Lone Pine Publishing.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p class=\"post-excerpt\">Common name: Oval-leaved blueberry Family: Ericaceae Information: This species is a dwarf shrub, with edible berries. It grows in moist&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":50391,"featured_media":1445,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[15,18],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1441","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-bc-taxa","category-ericaceae-bc"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/alpineplants\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1441","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/alpineplants\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/alpineplants\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/alpineplants\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/50391"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/alpineplants\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1441"}],"version-history":[{"count":10,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/alpineplants\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1441\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2293,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/alpineplants\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1441\/revisions\/2293"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/alpineplants\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1445"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/alpineplants\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1441"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/alpineplants\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1441"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/alpineplants\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1441"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}