Box Huckleberry - Gaylussacia brachycera
This plant bears pinkish white urn-shaped flowers in the early summer, which develop to blue, edible berries in late summer. Box huckleberry is self-sterile, and is found in isolated colonies that reproduce clonally by extending roots. Colonies can be thousands of years old!
Habitat: Forest edge at Garden in the Woods
''Gaylussacia brachycera'', commonly known as box huckleberry or box-leaved whortleberry, is a low North American shrub related to the blueberry and the other huckleberries. It is native to the east-central United States .
''Gaylussacia brachycera'' is easily distinguished from other members of its genus by its leaves: they resemble those of boxwood and lack the resin glands typical of huckleberries. Like its relatives, it bears white urn-shaped flowers in the early summer, which develop.. more
