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Ericaceae

20-Vaccinium macrocarpon

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Cranberries, Vaccinium macrocarpon, also belong to the Ericaceae. This species is essentially a prostrate shrub only a few inches tall.

Photo by K. R. Robertson at a commercial cranberry bog on Cape Cod, Massachusetts.

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