Vaccinium oxycoccosL.

bog cranberry

WFO wfo-0000421932 Accepted WFO 2026-06 8 photographs CC0 / CC BY

Plate 1 figs. a–h

Vaccinium oxycoccos, photographed by Jason Grant
fig. a Jason Grant, CC BY 4.0 / 2022-06-11 / obs. 205229206
Vaccinium oxycoccos, photographed by Elias
fig. b Elias, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 204913798
Vaccinium oxycoccos, photographed by Derek
fig. c Derek, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 203681763
Vaccinium oxycoccos, photographed by Марина Садыкова
fig. d Марина Садыкова, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 201348689
Vaccinium oxycoccos, photographed by CatherineK
fig. e CatherineK, CC BY-SA 4.0 / obs. 205307339
Vaccinium oxycoccos, photographed by Thomas Koffel
fig. f Thomas Koffel, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 201277074
Vaccinium oxycoccos, photographed by Elias
fig. g Elias, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 200971436
Vaccinium oxycoccos, photographed by Thomas Koffel
fig. h Thomas Koffel, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 201276811

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Confused withby our own model

These are not lookalikes we guessed at. Each one is a species our identification model genuinely mistook for this plant, and how many times. The error rate is published.

Flowering n = 791 observations

Peak flowering in Jun, from 791 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 20 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.

  • Oxycoca vulgaris Raf.
  • Oxycoccus europaeus Pers.
  • Oxycoccus gigas Hagerup
  • Oxycoccus intermedius (A.Gray) Rydb.
  • Oxycoccus ovalifolius (Michx.) A.E.Porsild
  • Oxycoccus oxycoccos (L.) MacMill.
  • Oxycoccus palustris Pers.
  • Oxycoccus quadripetalus Gilib.
  • Oxycoccus quadripetalus Schinz & Thell.
  • Oxycoccus vulgaris Hill
  • Schollera europaea (Pers.) Steud.
  • Schollera oxycoccos (L.) Roth
  • Schollera oxycoccus (L.) Britten
  • Schollera paludosa Baumg.
  • Schollera palustris (Pers.) Steud.
  • Vaccinium oxycoccos f. oxycoccos
  • Vaccinium oxycoccos subsp. microphyllum (Lange) Feilberg
  • Vaccinium oxycoccos var. intermedium A.Gray
  • Vaccinium oxycoccos var. oxycoccos
  • Vaccinium palustre Salisb.

Sourcesevery claim on this page

  1. World Flora Online Plant List. accepted name, authority, classification. CC0. Retrieved 2026-07-12.
  2. 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.