"Vaccinium myrtillus Vaccinium myrtillus is a species of shrub with edible fruit of blue color, commonly called ""bilberry"", ""wimberry"", ""whortleberry"", or European blueberry. It has much in common with the American blueberry (""Vaccinium cyanococcus""). It is more precisely called common bilberry or blue whortleberry, to distinguish it from other ""Vaccinium"" relatives. Regional names include blaeberry, urts (Cornwall), hurtleberry, huckleberry, wimberry, whinberry, winberry, blueberry, and fraughan. ""Vaccinium myrtillus"" is found natively in Europe, northern Asia, Greenland, Iceland, Western Canada, and the Western United States. It occurs in the wild on heathlands and acidic soils. Its berry has been long consumed in"
"Vaccinium myrtilloides Vaccinium myrtilloides is a shrub with common names including common blueberry, velvetleaf huckleberry, velvetleaf blueberry, Canadian blueberry, and sourtop blueberry. It is common in much of North America, reported from all 10 Canadian provinces plus Nunavut and Northwest Territories, as well as from the northeastern and Great Lakes states in the United States. It is also known to occur in Montana and Washington. ""Vaccinium myrtilloides"" is a low spreading deciduous shrub growing up to 50 cm (20 inches) tall, often spreading to form small thickets. The leaves are bright green, paler underneath with velvety hairs. The flowers are"
"to prevent miscarriage. The Potawatomi also use the root bark of the plant for an unspecified aliment. The Nihithawak Cree use the berries to dye porcupine quills. Vaccinium myrtilloides Vaccinium myrtilloides is a shrub with common names including common blueberry, velvetleaf huckleberry, velvetleaf blueberry, Canadian blueberry, and sourtop blueberry. It is common in much of North America, reported from all 10 Canadian provinces plus Nunavut and Northwest Territories, as well as from the northeastern and Great Lakes states in the United States. It is also known to occur in Montana and Washington. ""Vaccinium myrtilloides"" is a low spreading deciduous shrub"
"Vaccinium vitis-idaea Vaccinium vitis-idaea (lingonberry, partridgeberry or cowberry) is a short evergreen shrub in the heath family that bears edible fruit, native to boreal forest and Arctic tundra throughout the Northern Hemisphere from Eurasia to North America. Lingonberries are picked in the wild and used to accompany a variety of dishes in Northern Baltoscandia and Russia. Commercial cultivation is undertaken in the U.S. Pacific Northwest and in many other regions of the world. ""Vaccinium vitis-idaea"" is most commonly known in English as lingonberry or cowberry. The name lingonberry originates from the Swedish name ""lingon"" for the species, and is derived"
"Vaccinium Vaccinium is a common and widespread genus of shrubs or dwarf shrubs in the heath family (Ericaceae). The fruits of many species are eaten by humans and some are of commercial importance, including the cranberry, blueberry, bilberry (whortleberry), lingonberry (cowberry), and huckleberry. Like many other ericaceous plants, they are generally restricted to acidic soils. The plant structure varies between species: some trail along the ground, some are dwarf shrubs, and some are larger shrubs perhaps tall. The fruit develops from an inferior ovary, and is a berry; it is usually brightly coloured, often being red or bluish with purple"
"Vaccinium scoparium Vaccinium scoparium is a species of huckleberry known by the common names grouse whortleberry, grouseberry, and littleleaf huckleberry. It is native to western North America, primarily in the Rockies, Cascades, and Black Hills from British Columbia and Alberta south to far northern California to Colorado and New Mexico, and east to South Dakota. It grows in mountain habitat such as forests, meadows, and talus, occurring in subalpine and alpine climates at elevations of 700 to 3000 meters (2,333 - 10,000 feet. It is a common understory plant in many forested regions of the Rocky Mountains, being common to"
"the fruits. ""Vaccinium myrsinites"" is likely a hybrid of two other blueberry species, small cluster blueberry and Darrow's evergreen blueberry. Individuals may resemble one or the other parent species; the ""darrowoid"" phase is more common in coastal Florida, while the ""tenneloid"" phase can be found in southern Georgia and northern Florida. This species also hybridizes with many other blueberries. The Seminole used ""V. myrsinites"" for food and for a variety of ceremonial and medicinal purposes, including the treatment of ""hog sickness"", or unconsciousness. Vaccinium myrsinites Vaccinium myrsinites is a species of flowering plant in the heath family known by the"
"white, bell-shaped, 5 mm (0.2 inches) long. The fruit is a small sweet bright blue to dark blue berry. Young stems have stiff dense bristly hairs. ""Vaccinium myrtilloides"" grows best in open coniferous woods with dry loose acidic soils; it is also found in forested bogs and rocky areas. It is fire-tolerant and is often abundant following forest fires or clear-cut logging. ""Vaccinium myrtilloides"" hybridizes in the wild with ""Vaccinium angustifolium"" (lowbush blueberry). ""Vaccinium myrtilloides"" is also cultivated and grown commercially in Canada and Maine, mainly harvested from managed wild patches. ""Vaccinium myrtilloides"" is one of the sweetest blueberries known."
"Vaccinium cespitosum Vaccinium cespitosum (also, ""caespitosum""), the dwarf bilberry, is a species of flowering shrub in the genus ""Vaccinium"", which includes blueberries, huckleberries, and cranberries. ""Vaccinium cespitosum"" is widespread across much of Canada including all 3 Arctic territories], as well as the northern and western United States, Mexico, and Guatemala. ""Vaccinium cespitosum"" is a low-lying plant rarely reaching half a meter (1.5 feet) in height which forms a carpet-like stand in rocky mountainous meadows. The dwarf bilberry foliage is reddish-green to green and the flowers are tiny urn-shaped light pink cups less than a centimeter (>0.4 inches) wide. The fruits"
"Vaccinium ovatum Vaccinium ovatum is a North American species of flowering shrub known by the common names evergreen huckleberry, winter huckleberry and California huckleberry. ""Vaccinium ovatum"" is a small to medium-sized evergreen shrub native to the Western Pacific Coast of the United States and coastal British Columbia. Typical flora associates are such plants as the western sword fern (""Polystichum munitum""), coastal woodfern (""Dryopteris arguta""), California snowberry (""Symphoricarpos mollis""), common snowberry (""Symphoricarpos albus""), and thimbleberry (""Rubus parviflorus""). Often found sprouting from nurse logs and growing in conjunction with red huckleberry (""Vaccinium parvifolium""). ""Vaccinium ovatum"" is a true huckleberry plant, growing well"
"Vaccinium arboreum Vaccinium arboreum (sparkleberry or farkleberry) is a species of ""Vaccinium"" native to the southeastern and south-central United States, from southern Virginia west to southeastern Nebraska, south to Florida and eastern Texas, and north to Illinois. ""Vaccinium arboreum"" is a shrub (rarely a small tree) growing to 3–5 m (7.5-12.5 feet) rarely 9 m) (22.5 feet) tall, with a diameter at breast height of up to 35 cm (14 inches). The leaves are evergreen in the south of the range, but deciduous further north where winters are colder; they are oval-elliptic with an acute apex, 3–7 cm long and"
"Huckleberry Huckleberry is a name used in North America for several plants in the family Ericaceae, in two closely related genera: ""Vaccinium"" and ""Gaylussacia"". The huckleberry is the state fruit of Idaho. The name 'huckleberry' is a North American variation of the English dialectal name variously called 'hurtleberry' or 'whortleberry' () for the bilberry. In North America the name was applied to numerous plant variations all bearing small berries with colors that may be red, blue or black. It is the common name for various ""Gaylussacia"" species, and some ""Vaccinium"" species, such as ""Vaccinium parvifolium"", the ""red huckleberry"", and is"
"are edible blue bilberries. Vaccinium cespitosum Vaccinium cespitosum (also, ""caespitosum""), the dwarf bilberry, is a species of flowering shrub in the genus ""Vaccinium"", which includes blueberries, huckleberries, and cranberries. ""Vaccinium cespitosum"" is widespread across much of Canada including all 3 Arctic territories], as well as the northern and western United States, Mexico, and Guatemala. ""Vaccinium cespitosum"" is a low-lying plant rarely reaching half a meter (1.5 feet) in height which forms a carpet-like stand in rocky mountainous meadows. The dwarf bilberry foliage is reddish-green to green and the flowers are tiny urn-shaped light pink cups less than a centimeter (>0.4"
"Vaccinium ovalifolium Vaccinium ovalifolium (commonly known as Alaska blueberry, early blueberry, oval-leaf bilberry, oval-leaf blueberry, and oval-leaf huckleberry) is a plant in the heath family having three varieties, all of which grow in northerly regions, including the subarctic. ""Vaccinium ovalifolium"" is a spreading shrub which may grow to tall. It has pink urn-shaped flowers. Berries are dark blue, often black, sometimes with a waxy coating. The original variety (i.e. the automatically named ""Vaccinium ovalifolium"" var[iety] ""ovalifolium"") is found on both the eastern and western sides of the Pacific Ocean; in North America, it is distributed in Canada (in Alberta, British"
"The leathery, green or grayish green, oval leaves are up to roughly one centimeter (0.4 inches) long and have smooth or vaguely toothed edges. The undersides are glandular. The flowers are urn-shaped or cylindrical, white to pink or red-tinged, and borne in clusters of up to 8. They may be nearly one centimeter long. The fruit is a black or waxy blue berry up to 8 or 9 millimeters in length containing several seeds. ""Vaccinium myrsinites"" grows in several habitat types in the southeastern U.S., including prairies, pine barrens, bog margins, flatwoods, Florida scrub, palmetto communities, and rosemary balds. It"
"Vaccinium boreale Vaccinium boreale, common name northern blueberry, sweet hurts or (in French) bleuet boréal, is a plant species native to the northeastern United States and eastern Canada. It has been reported from Québec, New Brunswick, Nova Scotia, Newfoundland & Labrador, Maine, New Hampshire, Vermont, and New York State. It grows in tundra (arctic or alpine), rocky uplands and in open conifer forests at elevations up to 2000 m (6700 feet). ""Vaccinium boreale"" is a small shrub up to 9 cm (3.6 inches) tall, forming dense colonies of many individuals. Twigs are green, angled, with lines of hairs. Leaves are"
"Vaccinium praestans Vaccinium praestans or Vaccinium praestans - Lamb. is most commonly known as the Kamchatka bilberry. In Russia this plant is known as the ""Klopovka"", or ""the bug berry,"" due to its distinct, potent scent, much like the smell of bugs. This slow growing shrub is native to Kamchatka but can be found in North America to Eastern Asia. Mostly growing in the wild but also as an ornamental, it is most common in Japan, where it is used to decorate home gardens. It is a part of the Ericaceae family, which includes species like cranberries, blueberries, and huckleberries."
"Vaccinium virgatum Vaccinium virgatum (commonly known as rabbit-eye blueberry, smallflower blueberry or southern black blueberry ) is a species of blueberry native to the Southeastern United States, from North Carolina south to Florida and west to Texas. ""Vaccinium virgatum"" is a deciduous shrub growing to 3 to 6 feet tall and with up to a 3-foot spread. The leaves are spirally arranged, oblate to narrow elliptic, 3 inches long and start out red-bronze in the spring only to develop into a dark-green. The flowers are white, bell-shaped, 5 mm long. The fruit is a berry 5 mm diameter, dark blue"
"the wild western huckleberries, and it has great commercial importance. In a good year ""Vaccinium membranaceum"" shrubs produce a lot of fruit. The amount of fruit produced by these shrubs is legendary, with stories being told of mountain sides turned purple by all of the fruit, or shrubs being weighed to the ground by large, and abundant berries Both humans and wildlife enjoy feasting on this fruit in the late summer and early fall. People have been eating the fruit of this species for thousands of years. It was and continues to be widely used for food by Native Americans."
"Vaccinium pallidum Vaccinium pallidum is a species of flowering plant in the heath family known by the common names hillside blueberry, Blue Ridge blueberry, late lowbush blueberry, and early lowbush blueberry. It is native to central Canada (Ontario) and the central and eastern United States (from Maine west to Wisconsin and south as far as Georgia and Louisiana) plus the Ozarks of Missouri, Arkansas, southeastern Kansas and eastern Oklahoma. ""Vaccinium pallidum"" is a deciduous shrub, erect in stature but variable in height. It generally grows tall, but depending on environmental conditions it ranges from 8 centimeters (3.2 inches) to one"
"Vaccinium corymbosum Vaccinium corymbosum, the northern highbush blueberry, is a North American species of blueberry which has become a food crop of significant economic importance. It is native to eastern Canada and the eastern and southern United States, from Ontario east to Nova Scotia and south as far as Florida and eastern Texas. It is also naturalized in other places: Europe, Japan, New Zealand, the Pacific Northwest of North America, etc. Other common names include blue huckleberry, tall huckleberry, swamp huckleberry, high blueberry, and swamp blueberry. ""Vaccinium corymbosum"" is a deciduous shrub growing to tall and wide. It is often"
"Vaccinium membranaceum Vaccinium membranaceum is a species within the group of Vaccinium commonly referred to as huckleberry. This particular species is known by the common names thinleaf huckleberry, tall huckleberry, big huckleberry, mountain huckleberry, square-twig blueberry, and (ambiguously) as ""black huckleberry"". ""Vaccinium membranaceum"" is native to western North America, with a range extending in the northern from southern Alaska, Yukon, and Northwest Territories south as far as Utah and the northern mountains of California. It can be found from the mountains next to the Pacific Ocean in the west, to the Rocky Mountains and Black Hills in the east. Isolated"
"the region. ""Vaccinium ovatum"" is grown as an ornamental plant for horticultural use by specialty wholesale, retail, and botanic garden native plant nurseries. The plant is successful in natural landscape and native plant palette style, and habitat gardens and public sustainable landscape and restoration projects that are similar to its habitat conditions. Vaccinium ovatum Vaccinium ovatum is a North American species of flowering shrub known by the common names evergreen huckleberry, winter huckleberry and California huckleberry. ""Vaccinium ovatum"" is a small to medium-sized evergreen shrub native to the Western Pacific Coast of the United States and coastal British Columbia. Typical"
"Cree use the berries of the ""minus"" subspecies to color porcupine quills, and put the firm, ripe berries on a string to wear as a necklace. The Western Canadian Inuktitut use the ""minus"" subspecies as a tobacco additive or substitute. ""Vaccinium vitis-idaea"" differs from the related cranberries in having white flowers with petals partially enclosing the stamens and stigma, rather than pink flowers with petals reflexed backwards, and rounder, less pear-shaped berries. Hybrids between ""Vaccinium vitis-idaea"" and ""Vaccinium myrtillus"", named ""Vaccinium × intermedium"" Ruthe, are occasionally found in Europe. Vaccinium vitis-idaea Vaccinium vitis-idaea (lingonberry, partridgeberry or cowberry) is a short"
"Vaccinium hirsutum Vaccinium hirsutum is a species of flowering plant in the heath family known by the common name hairy blueberry. This species is endemic to a small area in the southern Appalachian mountains, where it is only known from a few counties in eastern Tennessee, northern Georgia, and the Carolinas. ""Vaccinium hirsutum"" is native to dry oak-pine ridges, where it can be locally abundant. It is a shrub up to 75 cm (28 inches) tall, forming large colonies. Leaves are rather thick, elliptical, densely hairy, up to 62 mm (2 1/2 inches) long. ""Vaccinium hirsutum"" produces white, cylindrical flowers"
"Vaccinium myrsinites Vaccinium myrsinites is a species of flowering plant in the heath family known by the common name shiny blueberry. It is native to the southeastern United States from Alabama, Georgia, South Carolina and Florida. It may occur as far west as Louisiana. ""Vaccinium myrsinites"" is an erect, branching shrub that reaches one meter (40 inches) in maximum height. It is rhizomatous and can form very large colonies. Colonies measuring one kilometer (0.63 miles ) across and over 1,000 years old have been observed. It is generally evergreen, but some forms are deciduous. The stems have angular green twigs."
"foraging nectar from the bell-shaped flowers. This species is a host to the blueberry maggot (""Rhagoletis mendax"") a pest of blueberry crops. The fruit is edible for humans, and the taste has been described as tart, sour, bitter, or ""sweet-spicy tasting, a little reminiscent of lady's perfume"". The skin is often bitter, but some localized populations of plants yield more palatable fruit. It has long been collected in the southern United States for preserves and pie filling. Vaccinium stamineum Vaccinium stamineum, commonly known as deerberry, tall deerberry, squaw huckleberry, highbush huckleberry, buckberry, and southern gooseberry, is a species of flowering"
"of the fruit called the ""Huckleberry Festival"" in August when the fruits ripen at high elevations. Though related to the common blueberry (""Vaccinium corymbosum"") very few have managed to grow Rocky Mountain huckleberry in domestic cultivation. It is commonly found in plant communities with beargrass (""Xerophyllum tenax""), a perennial found in burned or logged-over areas of the mountain ranges in the county. The bitterroot (""Lewisia rediviva"") is the state flower and found in limited quantities in Sanders County, though the prairie hills in Missoula County drew Native tribes from surrounding areas to dig the roots for food annually. As of"
"of dyes, including the use of its tannin. In the winter, ""Vaccinium ovalifolium"" is an important food source for grazing deer, goats, and elk, and in the summer the nectar feeds hummingbirds. Vaccinium ovalifolium Vaccinium ovalifolium (commonly known as Alaska blueberry, early blueberry, oval-leaf bilberry, oval-leaf blueberry, and oval-leaf huckleberry) is a plant in the heath family having three varieties, all of which grow in northerly regions, including the subarctic. ""Vaccinium ovalifolium"" is a spreading shrub which may grow to tall. It has pink urn-shaped flowers. Berries are dark blue, often black, sometimes with a waxy coating. The original variety"
"Vaccinium stamineum Vaccinium stamineum, commonly known as deerberry, tall deerberry, squaw huckleberry, highbush huckleberry, buckberry, and southern gooseberry, is a species of flowering plant in the heath family. It is native to North America, including Ontario, the eastern and central United States, and parts of Mexico. It is most common in the southeastern United States. This species is quite variable in morphology. It is a shrub usually growing up to 1.5 meters (60 inches or 5 feet) tall, but reaching up to 3 meters (10 feet) at times. It has multiple twisted trunks covered in peeling reddish bark and is"
"the flower. The fruit is a berry, blue-black when ripe. This species, and the more compact ""M. communis"" subsp. ""tarentina"" have won the Royal Horticultural Society's Award of Garden Merit. Myrtus communis Myrtus communis, the common myrtle, is a species of flowering plant in the myrtle family Myrtaceae. It is an evergreen shrub native to southern Europe, north Africa, western Asia, Macaronesia, and the Indian Subcontinent, and also cultivated. It is one of the four species used by Jews in their religious rituals on the festival of Sukkot. For uses, see ""Myrtus"". The plant is an evergreen shrub or small"
"a soft, bright red berry up to 6 millimeters in width. It is edible and has a tart flavor. This shrub provides food for many large mammal species, such as elk, mule deer, and bears, and many smaller animals, such as squirrels, foxes, skunks, and a variety of birds. The berries were used for food by many Native American groups, including the Kootenay, Okanogan, and Shuswap. They are small and difficult to collect in large quantities, and Native people likely used combs made of wood or fishbones to harvest them. Vaccinium scoparium Vaccinium scoparium is a species of huckleberry known"
"deciduous, narrowly elliptic, up to 21 mm (0.85 inches) long, with teeth along the margins. Flowers are white, up to 4 mm long. Berries are blue, up to 5 mm (0.2 inches) across. Vaccinium boreale Vaccinium boreale, common name northern blueberry, sweet hurts or (in French) bleuet boréal, is a plant species native to the northeastern United States and eastern Canada. It has been reported from Québec, New Brunswick, Nova Scotia, Newfoundland & Labrador, Maine, New Hampshire, Vermont, and New York State. It grows in tundra (arctic or alpine), rocky uplands and in open conifer forests at elevations up to"