Evergreen Huckleberry
Vaccinium ovatum
A refined evergreen huckleberry with glossy bronze new growth, pink bell flowers, and sweet black late-season berries. Slow but elegant, taking sun on the coast and shade inland.
- Family
- Ericaceae
- Type
- shrub
- Lifespan
- perennial
- Height
- 8–8 ft
- Spacing
- 3–6 ft apart
- Light
- sun, part shade, shade
- Soil moisture
- dry
- Soil pH
- acidic, neutral
- Bloom
- March, April, May
- Bloom colors
- pink
- Wildlife value
- pollinators, songbirds, mammals
- Caterpillar hosts
- ~294 butterfly & moth species
- Landscape uses
- specimen, hedge or screen, foundation
- Native states
- CA, OR, WA
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