Vaccinium vitis-idaea (Lingonberry)

Plate 1 figs. a–h

Vaccinium vitis-idaea, photographed by Tatiana Strus — fig. a Tatiana Strus, CC BY 4.0 / 2022-06-14 / obs. 206001257

Vaccinium vitis-idaea, photographed by F Quiec — fig. b F Quiec, CC BY-SA 4.0 / obs. 205680480

Vaccinium vitis-idaea, photographed by Нурхайдарова Татьяна — fig. c Нурхайдарова Татьяна, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 205189464

Vaccinium vitis-idaea, photographed by Aleksei Baushev — fig. d Aleksei Baushev, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 205238456

Vaccinium vitis-idaea, photographed by Todd Boland — fig. e Todd Boland, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 205277034

Vaccinium vitis-idaea, photographed by Alessia Guggisberg — fig. f Alessia Guggisberg, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 204944584

Vaccinium vitis-idaea, photographed by Ilkka Tuunainen — fig. g Ilkka Tuunainen, CC BY-SA 4.0 / obs. 205834596

Vaccinium vitis-idaea, photographed by Yurii Basov — fig. h Yurii Basov, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 204144389

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Flowering n = 1,542 observations

180

814

425

Flowering observations of Vaccinium vitis-idaea by month
Month	Observations
Jan	0
Feb	0
Mar	1
Apr	8
May	180
Jun	814
Jul	425
Aug	47
Sep	49
Oct	13
Nov	5
Dec	0

Peak flowering in Jun, from 1,542 community-annotated observations worldwide. This is a global aggregate, not a forecast for your garden: the same species flowers on different dates in different hemispheres, and citizen-science records cluster near cities, at weekends, and in spring. Where a species has fewer than 30 annotated records we do not draw this chart at all.

Also published as 18 synonyms

A synonym is not an error. It is a record of botanists disagreeing, in print, about where this plant belongs. Each of these was somebody’s considered answer.

Myrtillus exigua Bubani
Rhodococcum minus (Lodd., G.Lodd. & W.Lodd.) Avrorin
Rhodococcum vitis-idaea (L.) Avrorin
Rhodococcum vitis-idaea Avrorin
Vaccinium buxifolium Gilib.
Vaccinium idaeum E.H.L.Krause
Vaccinium jesoense Miq.
Vaccinium minus Vorosch.
Vaccinium nemorosum Salisb.
Vaccinium pulchellum Fisch. ex Herder
Vaccinium punctatum Lam.
Vaccinium punctifolium Stokes
Vaccinium vitis-idaea subsp. minus (Lodd., G.Lodd. & W.Lodd.) Hultén
Vaccinium vitis-idaea var. minus Lodd., G.Lodd. & W.Lodd.
Vitis-idaea punctata Moench
Vitis-idaea punctata var. minor (Lodd.) Moldenke
Vitis-idaea punctifolia A.Gray
Vitis-idaea vitis-idaea (L.) Britton

Sourcesevery claim on this page

World Flora Online Plant List. accepted name, authority, classification. CC0. Retrieved 2026-07-12.
iNaturalist. photographs and flowering annotations, CC0 / CC BY / CC BY-SA only. per photograph. Retrieved 2026-06-27.

We publish what we can source and we say so when we cannot. This page has no care advice, no toxicity claim and no native range, because we do not yet have those from a source we can cite.