Organic Forest Plants & More

Huckleberry (Wild Blueberry)

Edible Landscaping

Zones

: 3 - 7

Duration: Perennial

Growth Habit: Shrub

Mature Size: Height: 3'

Flowers: early summer.

Fruit: mid - late summer.

Common alternate names for huckleberry: wild blueberry.

Scientific name for huckleberry:  Gaylussacia Kunth

Planting Information: Prefers coarse soils, drought tolerant, moisture requirements low.

Colors: Leaves: green in spring. Flowers: white. Fruit: blue to black.

Edible - food uses of huckleberry:

Huckleberry produces small blue / black berries in mid to late summer.   Huckleberry is similar in taste to blueberry.  They are delicious eaten fresh, baked into pies, used for jams or sprinkled on top of pancakes.

Wildlife:

Source of food for birds, bears and deer.

General description and characteristics of huckleberry:

Huckleberry plants produce delicious, dark blue edible fruit full of antioxidants that will compliment your
landscaping with deep green foliage. They work well in mass plantings or as specimen
shrubs in the garden, and grow well in sun or shade.

Huckleberry is drought tolerant and attractive birds, butterflies and bees.