Red Huckleberry
Vaccinium parvifolium
An airy, green-twigged huckleberry of conifer forests, often growing from rotting stumps, hung with translucent bright-red berries beloved by birds and people. Delicate and graceful in shade.
- Family
- Ericaceae
- Type
- shrub
- Lifespan
- perennial
- Height
- 12–12 ft
- Spacing
- 3–6 ft apart
- Light
- sun, part shade, shade
- Soil moisture
- dry
- Soil pH
- acidic, neutral
- Bloom
- May, June
- Bloom colors
- white, pink, green
- Wildlife value
- pollinators, songbirds, mammals
- Caterpillar hosts
- ~294 butterfly & moth species
- Landscape uses
- specimen, hedge or screen
- Native states
- AK, CA, OR, WA
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