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white-tailed ptarmigan, Richardson's grouse; composed 2.4 percent of fall food 

 of prairie chicken in Wisconsin; composed 7.6 percent of winter food of 

 northern sharp-tailed grouse in Ontario and Quebec ; Coeur d'Alene chipmunk, 

 red fox, plains white-tailed deer, opossum, white-tailed deer; composed 0.50 

 percent of fruit food of eastern skunk in Michigan. Observations (in addition 

 to specific records) : Thirty-five species of birds including ruffed, and spruce 

 grouse, ptarmigan, an important food of ring-necked pheasant ; ranked with 

 Oaylussacia as twenty-ninth on the list of quail food plants of the Southeast ; 

 emergency food of prairie sharp-tailed grouse, Hungarian partridge; southern 

 white-tailed deer, ptarmigan; skunk; much browsed by moose; much eaten 

 by red fox; rarely eaten by coyote; relished by Olympic wapiti, Columbian 

 black-tailed deer, Douglas squirrel, Allen's chipmunk, Pacific mountain beaver, 

 Oregon gray fox, California skunk, Olympic black bear, Virginia opossum ; 

 heavily browsed by Rocky Mountain snowshoe rabbit; lesser Colorado chip- 

 munk, Virginia opossum ; heavily browsed by white-tailed deer, cottontail rabbit ; 

 much eaten by raccoon ; alpine chipmunk, ring-tailed cat. 



Vaccinium amoenum, see Vaccinium corymbosum. 



Vaccinium. angustifolium Ait. lowbush blueberry. 



V. dobbinii Burn., V. nigrum Britt., V. pennsylvanicum Lam., not Miller, 

 Cyanococcus pennsylvanicus (Lam.) Rydb., C. angustifolius (Alt.) Rydb. 

 Range: 22, 23, 24, 26, 27. 

 Site : Dry, well-drained, sun, shade. 

 Fruit: Berry, available July-September. 



A small shrub, flowers April-June ; occurs in sandy and other soils ; spreads 

 by underground stems ; commonly the earliest ripening blueberry. 



Stomach records: Six species of birds, including ruffed grouse, bobwhite, and 

 greater prairie chicken. Observations: Ruffed grouse, bobwhite. Without 

 forage significance for livestock. 



Vaccinium arboreum Marsh. Tree huckleberry. 



Batodendron arboreum (Marsh.) Nutt. 

 Range : 17, 20, 25, 27, 28, 29, 30. 

 Site: Dry, well-drained, sun, shade. 

 Fruit: Berry, available, September-November. 



A large shrub to small or large tree; evergreen southward; flowers May- 

 August ; occurs in sandy and other soils ; the only species of the genus and one 

 of the two in the heath family supposedly capable of growing in neutral or 

 slightly alkaline soil. 



Stomach records: Bobwhite. Observations: Mockingbird. 



Vaccinium atrococcum (Gray) Heller. Black blueberry. 



V. corymbosum atrococcum Gray, Cyanococcus atrococcus (Gray) Small. 

 Range: 24, 26, 27, 29. 



Site : Dry, well-drained, moist, sun, shade. 

 Fruit: Berry, available July-August. 

 A small to large, spreading shrub; flowers May-June. 



Vaccinium brachycerum, see Oaylussacia brachycera. 



Vaccinium caesariense Mack. New Jersey blueberry. 



Range: 28. 



Site: Well-drained, moist, sun. 

 Fruit: Berry. 

 A small to large shrub ; flowers in May. 



Vaccinium caesium Greene. 



Polycodium caesium Greene, P. floridanum (Nutt.) Greene. 

 Range: 29, 30. 

 Site: Well-drained, sun. 

 Fruit: Berry. 

 A small, irregularly branched shrub. 



Vaccinium caespitosum Michx. Dwarf bilberry. 



Range : 4, 7, 12, 13, 23, 24, 26, 27. 

 Site : Dry, well-drained, sun. 

 Fruit : Berry, available June-September. 

 A small shrub: flowers June-July. Without value as forage for livestock. 



