Vaccinium shastense

Family: Ericaceae · Type: shrub · Native

Shasta huckleberry is a native shrub found in the Klamath Ranges and northern California mountains in forested areas at elevations of 500 to 2,000 meters. Flowering from late spring to early summer, this plant produces delicate pink to whitish urn-shaped flowers in single axillary blooms. Growing 0.5 to 1.7 meters tall with erect to decumbent stems that are strongly angled and bright green, it forms dense rhizomatous clusters. Its deciduous leaves are thin and ovate to obovate, typically 2 to 4.5 centimeters long with margins rolled under and edges fringed with tiny gland-tipped bristles. The fruit is a dark blue, glaucous berry approximately 6 to 8 millimeters in diameter that develops in late summer.

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