Vaccinium macrocarpon
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Vaccinium macrocarpon, also called large cranberry, American cranberry and bearberry, is a North American species of cranberry in the subgenus Oxycoccus.[3]
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Vaccinium macrocarpon | |
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Scientific classification | |
Kingdom: | Plantae |
Clade: | Tracheophytes |
Clade: | Angiosperms |
Clade: | Eudicots |
Clade: | Asterids |
Order: | Ericales |
Family: | Ericaceae |
Genus: | Vaccinium |
Subgenus: | Vaccinium subg. Oxycoccus |
Species: | V. macrocarpon |
Binomial name | |
Vaccinium macrocarpon Aiton 1789 | |
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The name cranberry, comes from shape of the flower stamen, which looks like a crane's beak.