Vaccinium scoparium

Little-leaved huckleberry, Little-Leaved Huckleberry

Family: Ericaceae · Type: shrub · Native

Conservation status: CNPS 2B.2

Little-leaved huckleberry is a California native shrub found in the Klamath Ranges in rocky subalpine woodland at elevations of 1,800 to 2,200 meters. Flowering from June to July, this plant produces pink, urn-shaped flowers less than 4 millimeters long in the axils of its lowest leaves. Growing with strongly angled green stems less than 5 decimeters tall that root and spread, it forms a brushy, glabrous structure with a rhizomatous base. Its deciduous leaves are small, 8 to 15 millimeters long, ovate to elliptic with serrated edges and smooth undersides. The fruit is a bright red berry 3 to 6 millimeters in diameter.

Habitat: Rocky subalpine woodland

Bloom period: Jun-Jul

Elevation: 1800-2200 m

Bioregions: KR

California counties: Siskiyou, Placer, Del Norte, Humboldt, Trinity

Data from The California Species Project — 14,000+ California species with verified data from CNPS, CDFW, USFWS, Jepson eFlora, Cal-IPC, and more.