Vaccinium Species, Alpine Bilberry, Bog Bilberry, Bog Blueberry, Northern Bilberry

I bought a plant labeled as Vaccinium uliginosum this spring (2011) at the Friends School Plant Sale and planted it in our new rain garde...Read Moren. I'm not certain it's correctly identified. The leaves are somewhat more leathery than those of blueberries, but aren't blue-green or rounded at the tip as in most photos online (or the photo on the sale website). Perhaps my plant is a bilberry or huckleberry, just not the bog bilberry.

This is a common prostrate shrub in exposed areas of Newfoundland. The fruit are blue and taste much like a blueberry but the plants onl...Read Morey produce individual berries rather than clusters. The leaves are rounded and can be quite blue-gren in colour. Could make a nice shrub for a rock garden setting.