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§1 Plant

Vaccinium oxycoccos L.

vernacular small cranberry — species · Ericaceae


USDA
VAOX
GBIF
2882940
Rank
species
small cranberry (Vaccinium oxycoccos)
Platephotograph · Matthieu GauvainCC BY-NC source · iNaturalist ↗

§2Habit & range

Habit and range

Growth habit
Shrub, Subshrub
Duration
Perennial
Group
Dicot
Family
Ericaceae Juss.
Genus
Vaccinium
§2a

Native status, by region

  • AK Alaska Native
  • CAN Canada Native
  • GL Greenland Native
  • L48 Lower 48 States Native
  • SPM St. Pierre & Miquelon Native
§2b

County-level range

· 303 counties across 20 states/territories
Legend Native · 303 Introduced · 0 Both · 0 Hover a county for detail.

§3Cultivation

No cultivation specs.

USDA has not characterised this taxon. Roughly four out of five plants in the database lack the detailed cultivation record present here — typically because they have not been the focus of NRCS Plant Materials work. Range and distribution data are unaffected.


§4Counties, by state

Recorded in 303 counties across 20 states/territories.

Alaska view state ↗ 23 N ▾
Idaho view state ↗ 3 N ▾
Illinois view state ↗ 1 N ▾
Indiana view state ↗ 8 N ▾
Maine view state ↗ 15 N ▾
Maryland view state ↗ 1 N ▾
Massachusetts view state ↗ 13 N ▾
Michigan view state ↗ 52 N ▾
Minnesota view state ↗ 26 N ▾
New Hampshire view state ↗ 9 N ▾
New Jersey view state ↗ 8 N ▾
New York view state ↗ 34 N ▾
Ohio view state ↗ 5 N ▾
Oregon view state ↗ 9 N ▾
Pennsylvania view state ↗ 18 N ▾
Rhode Island view state ↗ 3 N ▾
Vermont view state ↗ 13 N ▾
Washington view state ↗ 18 N ▾
West Virginia view state ↗ 2 N ▾
Wisconsin view state ↗ 42 N ▾

§5Sources & provenance

USDA PLANTS

Symbol, taxonomy, distribution, cultivation specs, native status. Public domain.

plants.usda.gov/VAOX ↗

GBIF Backbone

Canonical taxonomic identity, synonym resolution, cross-refs. CC0.

gbif.org/species/2882940 ↗

Record version

Cached and built locally. Source version on this record:

usda-plants-mt-2026-05-26

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