Bilberries include several closely related species of the Vaccinium genus, including:

• Vaccinium myrtillus L. (bilberry, blueberry, whortleberry, hurtleberry)
• Vaccinium uliginosum L. (bog bilberry, bog blueberry, bog whortleberry, bog huckleberry, northern bilberry, ground hurts)
• Vaccinium caespitosum Michx. (dwarf bilberry)
• Vaccinium deliciosum Piper (cascade bilberry)
• Vaccinium membranaceum (mountain bilberry, black mountain huckleberry, black huckleberry, twin-leaved huckleberry)
• Vaccinium ovalifolium (oval-leafed blueberry, oval-leaved bilberry, mountain blueberry, high-bush blueberry).
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• Vaccinium corymbosum (American blueberry)
• Vaccinium arboreum (sparkleberry, farkleberry)
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• Vaccinium oxycoccos (cranberry)
• Vaccinium macrocarpon (American cranberry, large cranberry)
• Vaccinium vitis idaea (cowberry, foxberry, lingonberry, mountain cranberry)
• Vaccinium parvifolium (red huckleberry)