Subgenera
A classification which predates molecular phylogeny divides Vaccinium into subgenera, and several sections:
- Subgenus Oxycoccus
- The cranberries, with slender, trailing, wiry non-woody shoots and strongly reflexed flower petals. Some botanists treat Oxycoccus as a distinct genus.
- Sect. Oxycoccus
- Vaccinium macrocarpon – American Cranberry
- Vaccinium microcarpum – Small Cranberry
- Vaccinium oxycoccos – Common Cranberry
- Sect. Oxycoccoides
- Vaccinium erythrocarpum – Southern Mountain Cranberry
- Subgenus Vaccinium
- All the other species, with thicker, upright woody shoots and bell-shaped flowers.
- Sect. Batodendron
- Vaccinium arboreum - Sparkleberry (images)
- Vaccinium crassifolium - Creeping Blueberry
- Sect. Brachyceratium
- Vaccinium dependens
- Sect. Bracteata
- Vaccinium acrobracteatum
- Vaccinium barandanum
- Vaccinium bracteatum
- Vaccinium coriaceum
- Vaccinium cornigerum
- Vaccinium cruentum
- Vaccinium hooglandii
- Vaccinium horizontale
- Vaccinium laurifolium
- Vaccinium lucidum
- Vaccinium myrtoides
- Vaccinium phillyreoides
- Vaccinium reticulatovenosum
- Vaccinium sparsum
- Vaccinium varingifolium
- Sect. Ciliata
- Vaccinium ciliatum
- Vaccinium oldhamii
- Sect. Cinctosandra
- Vaccinium exul
- Sect. Conchophyllum
- Vaccinium corymbodendron
- Vaccinium delavayi
- Vaccinium emarginatum
- Vaccinium griffithianum
- Vaccinium meridionale
- Vaccinium moupinense – Himalayan Blueberry
- Vaccinium neilgherrense
- Vaccinium nummularia
- Vaccinium retusum
- Sect. Cyanococcus – typical blueberries
- Vaccinium angustifolium – Lowbush Blueberry
- Vaccinium boreale – Northern Blueberry
- Vaccinium caesariense – New Jersey Blueberry
- Vaccinium caespitosum – Dwarf Blueberry (Dwarf Bilberry)
- Vaccinium corymbosum – Highbush Blueberry
- Vaccinium darrowii – Evergreen Blueberry
- Vaccinium elliottii – Elliott's Blueberry
- Vaccinium formosum
- Vaccinium fuscatum – Black Highbush Blueberry; syn. V. atrococcum
- Vaccinium hirsutum
- Vaccinium koreanum
- Vaccinium myrsinites – Evergreen Blueberry
- Vaccinium myrtilloides – Canadian Blueberry
- Vaccinium pallidum – Dryland Blueberry (images); syn. V. vacillans
- Vaccinium simulatum
- Vaccinium tenellum
- Vaccinium virgatum – Rabbiteye Blueberry; syn. V. ashei
- Sect. Eococcus
- Vaccinium fragile
- Sect. Epigynium
- Vaccinium vacciniaceum
- Sect. Galeopetalum
- Vaccinium chunii
- Vaccinium dunalianum
- Vaccinium glaucoalbum
- Vaccinium urceolatum
- Sect. Hemimyrtillus
- Vaccinium arctostaphylos
- Vaccinium cylindraceum
- Vaccinium hirtum
- Vaccinium padifolium
- Vaccinium smallii
- Sect. Myrtillus (including sect. Macropelma) – bilberries and relatives
- Vaccinium calycinum – Ōhelo kau laʻau (Hawaiʻi)
- Vaccinium cereum – East Polynesian Blueberry, Pacific Blueberry
- Vaccinium cespitosum – Dwarf Bilberry
- Vaccinium deliciosum – Cascade Bilberry, Cascade Blueberry, Blueleaf Huckleberry
- Vaccinium dentatum – Ōhelo (Hawaiʻi)
- Vaccinium membranaceum – Square-twig Blueberry, Thinleaf Huckleberry, Tall Huckleberry, Big Huckleberry, Mountain Huckleberry, "black huckleberry"
- Vaccinium myrtillus – Common Bilberry, Blue Whortleberry, Blaeberry, Fraughan, Hurtleberry
- Vaccinium ovalifolium – Alaska Blueberry, Early Blueberry, Oval-leaf Blueberry
- Vaccinium parvifolium – Red Huckleberry
- Vaccinium praestans – Krasnika (Russian: Красника)
- Vaccinium reticulatum – Ōhelo ʻai (Hawaiʻi)
- Vaccinium scoparium – Grouse Whortleberry, Grouseberry, Littleleaf Huckleberry
- Sect. Neurodesia
- Vaccinium crenatum
- Sect. Oarianthe
- Vaccinium ambyandrum
- Vaccinium cyclopense
- Sect. Oreades
- Vaccinium poasanum
- Sect. Pachyanthum
- Vaccinium fissiflorum
- Sect. Polycodium
- Vaccinium stamineum - Deerberry; syn. V. caesium (Eastern North America) (images)
- Sect. Pyxothamnus
- Vaccinium consanguineum
- Vaccinium floribundum
- Vaccinium ovatum - California Huckleberry (or Evergreen Huckleberry) (Coastal Western North America)
- Sect. Vaccinium
- Vaccinium uliginosum - Northern (or Bog) Bilberry (or Blueberry); syn. V. occidentale (Northern North America and Eurasia)
- Sect. Vitis-idaea
- Vaccinium vitis-idaea - Partridgeberry, Cowberry, Redberry, Red Whortleberry, or Lingonberry (northern North America and Eurasia)
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