KEY TO IMPORTANT WOODY PLANTS 



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34. Twigs grooved and/or angled). 



35. Shrubs low (to 15 inches high), much- 

 branched, broomv; leaves to }i inch long, 

 oval or egg-shaped often pointed at both 

 ends; margins finely saw-toothed; twigs 

 very slender, bright green, deeply 

 grooved, sharply angled, hairless; berries 

 red; often in carpetlike patches under 

 lodgepole pine; Cascades, Wallowa and 

 Blue Mts., e. Oreg., e. Wash. 



grouse whortleberry (Vaccinium 



scoparium) 

 35. Shrubs tall (usually 2-6 feet high). 

 36. Leaf margins entire or faintly toothed 

 near base; leaves to 2 inches long, 

 elliptic or almost round in outline, 

 rarely oval, hairless, glandless, dull 

 green on upper surface, often with 

 whitish "bloom" on under surface; 

 flowers pink, blooming before leaves 

 unfold; berries blue, with whitish 

 "bloom", large, tart, used in jellies; 

 twigs spreading, rather deeply grooved 

 at first, greenish on angles, reddish in 

 grooves, soon almost round ; straggling 

 shrubs to 12 feet high in good sites, 

 sometimes low and broomv after 

 browse injury due to repeated sprout- 



Ovalleaf whortleberry 



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