Vaccinium microcarpum

Vaccinium microcarpum
— Credit: 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.

The ELOKA Program is generously supported by the U.S. National Science Foundation through awards OPP-1554271, OPP-1549912, and OPP-1546038