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Vaccinium vitis-idaea (lingonberry or cowberry)

Vaccinium vitis-idaea (lingonberry or cowberry) is a short evergreen shrub in the heath family that bears edible fruit, native to boreal forest and Arctic tundra throughout the Northern Hemisphere from Eurasia to North America. Lingonberries are a staple in Northern Scandinavia, picked in the wild and used to accompany a variety of dishes.[1] Commercial cultivation is undertaken in the U.S. Pacific Northwest. foxberry, quailberry, bearberry, beaverberry, mountain cranberry, red hortleberry, lowbush cranberry, cougarberry, mountain bilberry, partridgeberry[11] (in Newfoundland and Cape Breton Island), redberry

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