Vaccinium ovatum

Appearance

''Vaccinium ovatum'' is a true huckleberry plant, growing well in shade or sun and thriving in acidic soils. Not needing much sun, the plant has a wide variety of forest homes; it is often seen sprouting out of old coast redwood stumps or dense brambles of other forest growths. The shiny, alternately arranged, egg-shaped leaves are 2 to 3 centimeters long and about a centimeter wide with finely serrated edges. During the summer the plant produces round, edible black berries up to a centimeter in diameter.

Distribution

''Vaccinium ovatum'' is a small to medium-sized evergreen shrub native to the Western Pacific Coast of the United States and coastal British Columbia. Typical flora associates are such plants as the western sword fern , coastal woodfern , California snowberry , common snowberry , and thimbleberry . Often found sprouting from nurse logs and growing in conjunction with red huckleberry .

Habitat

''Vaccinium ovatum'' is a small to medium-sized evergreen shrub native to the Western Pacific Coast of the United States and coastal British Columbia. Typical flora associates are such plants as the western sword fern , coastal woodfern , California snowberry , common snowberry , and thimbleberry . Often found sprouting from nurse logs and growing in conjunction with red huckleberry .