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Vaccinium microcarpum

Central Alaskan Yup’ik: uingiaraq (Kuskokwim and Yukon), quunarliaraq (Hooper Bay, Chevak)
Russian: клюква мелкоплодная (klyukva melkoplodnaya)
English: bog cranberry

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Vaccinium microcarpum
Photo by Kevin Jernigan

 

Central Alaskan Yup’ik:
The berries are harvested in the early fall and used in a similar way as lowbush cranberries (Vaccinium vitis-idaea).  They are eaten plain or cooked with other food.  They are also mixed with pike eggs, seal oil and sugar to make a kind of akutaq called qerpertaq