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37. Leaves thin, bright green and often 

 glossy on upper surface, paler green 

 underneath, usually rather narrow, 

 pointed or rounded at tip; often hairy 

 and glandular on both surfaces; margins 

 finely but sharply saw-toothed; twigs 

 slender, shiny brown or hoary with tiny, 

 whitish, curved hairs, rarely with whitish 

 waxy "bloom"; flowers ellipsoid; low 

 tufted shrub of higher altitudes, often 

 on old lodgepole pine burns, Cascades, 

 Wallowa and Blue Mts., e. Oreg., e. 

 Wash. 



dwarf blueberry 

 (Vaccinium cespitosum). 15 



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Dwarf blueberry 



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15 At lower altitudes in mountain areas in both eastern Oregon and eastern 

 Washington, there are erect, taller, and coarser shrubs with redder twigs and 

 larger leaves than those of dwarf blueberry; these are referred by some botanists 

 to taller dwarf blueberry (Vaccinium cespitosum var. arbuscula) ; other botanists 

 regard these coarse shrubs as possibly polyploid and as a separate species (Vac- 

 cinium arbuscula). 



