Huckleberry (Vaccinium ovatum) Login         


        Description
  • Height to 9 ft.
  • CA Bloom Feb - Jun
  • Evergreen leaves are thick, toothed, and about 1 inch long, ending in a point.
  • Leaves and stems are often red.
  • Tight clusters of 1/4" berries ripen in June and stay on the bush through the fall.
  • CA native
  • AKA Evergreen Huckleberry, California Huckleberry
  • Heath Family (Ericaceae)



Bunches of small, pink and white, urn-shaped flowers hang down, indicating a member of the Heath Family.



The Huckleberry berry is delicious. It starts out green, then red, and ends up purple-black. All sorts of animals eat them.


This dark and shiny-leaved shrub does well in acidic soil at the edges of mixed evergreen and conifer forests.

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Huckleberry leaves are distinctive. They're thick and leathery, with tiny saw-like teeth along their edge. They grow 1 or 2 inches long and end in a ...
The underside of leaves is paler and not shiny. Young stems have minute pubescent hairs that fall off as the stem ages.
Young huckleberry leaves provide an early spring display of colors, emerging coppery red and gradually changing to a shiny dark green. These colors ...
Huckleberry leaves also make a colorful display in the fall. Even though the leaves are evergreen, chlorophyll production drops off, allowing an un ...
Here's a classic huckleberry flower look - a tight cluster of pink urn-shaped flowers hanging down with short, reflexed [[lobes]] at the tip. The d ...
Flowers can also be mostly white with green [[sepals]]. Notice the white corolla on the right that has separated from its base. It shows you how the ...