{"id":2489,"date":"2020-07-25T20:04:36","date_gmt":"2020-07-26T03:04:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/alpineplants\/?p=2489"},"modified":"2023-06-17T15:10:04","modified_gmt":"2023-06-17T22:10:04","slug":"rctostaphylos-uva-ursi-l-spreng","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/alpineplants\/2020\/07\/25\/rctostaphylos-uva-ursi-l-spreng\/","title":{"rendered":"<em>Arctostaphylos uva-ursi<\/em> (L.) Spreng."},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Common name: <\/strong>Common bearberry \/ kinnikinnick<\/p>\n<p><strong>Family<\/strong>: Eric<span id=\"lblScientific\">aceae <\/span><\/p>\n<p><strong>Information:\u00a0<\/strong> Common from low to alpine elevations in well-drained (sandy) soils in in forests and clearings. According to Pojar and MacKinnon, Kinnikinnick is &#8220;said to be an Algonquian term meaning smoking mixture&#8221;, its dried leaves were used by several BC Indigenous nations, including the Coast Salish. Produces small bright red berries (not shown).<\/p>\n<p><strong>Photo<\/strong>: Forest clearing at ca. 1950 m in Manning Park along the three brother&#8217;s trail, July 8 2020. N Hewitt<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><strong>Sources and Additional Resources<\/strong>:<\/p>\n<p>Pojar, J. &amp; MacKinnon, A. (2014). Plants of Coastal British Columbia: Including Washington, Oregon &amp; Alaska. Vancouver: Lone Pine Publishing.<\/p>\n<p>Klinkenberg, Brian. (Editor) 2020. <em>E-Flora BC: Electronic Atlas of the Plants of British Columbia<\/em> [eflora.bc.ca]. Lab for Advanced Spatial Analysis, Department of Geography, University of British Columbia, Vancouver. <a href=\"https:\/\/linnet.geog.ubc.ca\/Atlas\/Atlas.aspx?sciname=Arctostaphylos%20uva-ursi\">https:\/\/linnet.geog.ubc.ca\/Atlas\/Atlas.aspx?sciname=Arctostaphylos%20uva-ursi<\/a> Accessed: <span id=\"lblServerTime\">2023-06-17.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p class=\"post-excerpt\">Common name: Common bearberry \/ kinnikinnick Family: Ericaceae Information:\u00a0 Common from low to alpine elevations in well-drained (sandy) soils in&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":50391,"featured_media":2496,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[15,18],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2489","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\/2489","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=2489"}],"version-history":[{"count":9,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/alpineplants\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2489\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4661,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/alpineplants\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2489\/revisions\/4661"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/alpineplants\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2496"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/alpineplants\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2489"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/alpineplants\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2489"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/alpineplants\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2489"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}