Taxon: Vaccinium myrtillus L.

Common names:

• bilberry (Source: World Econ Pl)
  
• whortleberry (Source: World Econ Pl)
  
• dwarf bilberry (Source: F Pacif NW, F Canada)
  
• blaeberry (Source: Dict Gard)
  
• whinberry (Source: Dict Gard)
  
• Heidelbeere (Source: Zander ed14) [German]
  
• myrtille (Source: C. Feuillet, p.c.) [French]
  

Economic importance:

• Human food: beverage base, fruit (fide Krussmann; F USSR; D. J. Mabberley, The Plant-Book, ed. 2. 1997)
  
• Medicines: folklore (contains anthocianidoses fide Morazzoni & Bombardelli, Fitoterapia 66:3-29.)
  

Distributional range:

• Asia-Temperate: Armenia; Georgia; Mongolia; Russian Federation - Ciscaucasia, Dagestan, Eastern Siberia, Western Siberia; Turkey [n.]
• Europe: Albania; Austria; Belarus; Bulgaria; Czechoslovakia; Denmark; Estonia; Finland; France; Germany; Hungary; Iceland; Ireland; Italy; Latvia; Lithuania; Moldova; Netherlands; Norway; Poland; Portugal; Romania; Russian Federation - European part; Spain; Sweden; Switzerland; Ukraine; United Kingdom; Yugoslavia
• Northern America: Canada - Alberta [s.w.], British Columbia [s.e.]; Greenland [s.w.]; United States - Arizona [n.], Colorado [w.], Idaho, Montana [w.], New Mexico, Utah [e.], Washington [e.], Wyoming [w.]

References:

• S. L. Welsh et al. 1987. A Utah flora. Great Basin Naturalist Mem. 9. (F Utah)
  
• J. T. Kartesz. 1994. A synonymized checklist of the vascular flora of the United States, Canada, and Greenland. (L USCan ed2)
  
• S. Facciola. 1990. Cornucopia, a source book of edible plants. (Cornucopia)
  
• A. Y. Leung & S. Foster. 1996. Encyclopedia of common natural ingredients used in food, drugs, and cosmetics, ed. 2. (Ency CNatIn)
  
• V. L. Komarov et al., eds. 1934-1964. Flora SSSR. (F USSR)
  
• T. G. Tutin et al., eds. 1964-1980. Flora europaea. (F Eur)
  
• P. H. Davis, ed. 1965-1988. Flora of Turkey and the east Aegean islands. (F Turk)
  
• G. M. Markle et al., eds. 1998. Food and feed crops of the United States, ed. 2. (Food Feed Crops US)
  
• G. Krussmann. 1984. Handbuch de Laubgeholze, Engl. translat. (Krussmann)
  
• International Seed Testing Association. 1988. International Seed Testing Association list of stabilized plant names. (ISTA)
  
• R. D. Dorn. 1977. Manual of the vascular plants of Wyoming. (F Wyom)
  
• G. Kunkel. Plants for human consumption (L Edible Pl)
  
• H. J. Scoggan. 1978-1979. The flora of Canada, 4 vol. (F Canada)
  
• H. J. Scoggan. 1978-1979. The flora of Canada, 4 vol. (F Canada)
  
• A. Huxley, ed. The new Royal Horticultural Society dictionary of gardening. 1992 (Dict Gard)
  
• J. H. Wiersema & B. León. 1999. World economic plants: a standard reference. (World Econ Pl)
  
• P. Morazzoni & E. Bombardelli. 1996. Fitoterapia. 66:3-29.
  

Check other databases for Vaccinium myrtillus:

• Flora Europaea: Database of European Plants (ESFEDS)
• PLANTS: Database of North American Plants (USDA-NRCS)
• W³TROPICOS: Nomenclatural and Specimen Database of the Missouri Botanical Garden