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Gaylussacia baccata
Also called Crackleberry
Black huckleberry is a native North American shrub, up to about 1.5 m tall, that spreads into dense colonies and bears dark blue to black edible berries. It grows best in acidic, well-drained soil in woodland edges and clearings, and it is hard to cultivate outside its natural habitat.
Gaylussacia baccata, the black huckleberry, is a common huckleberry found throughout a wide area of eastern North America.
The plant is native to Eastern Canada and the Great Lakes region, the Midwestern and Northeastern United States, and the Appalachian Mountains, the Ohio/Mississippi/Tennessee Valley, and Southeastern United States. The range extends from Newfoundland west to Manitoba and Minnesota, south as far as Arkansas, Alabama, and Georgia.
The berries are sweet, and are eaten raw, jellied, or baked into foods such as pancakes, muffins.
Bog Huckleberry · Box huckleberry · Dwarf huckleberry · Blue huckleberry · Woolly huckleberry · Blue Ridge Huckleberry · Gaylussacia pulchra · Hairytwig huckleberry · Bear huckleberry
Text excerpted from the Wikipedia article Gaylussacia baccata by its contributors, under CC BY-SA 4.0; the excerpts and the care summary drawn from them are shared under the same licence.
The care summary was written by AI (Claude, Anthropic) from the sources on this page, with general growing knowledge where they are silent. Check before relying on it.
Life form, climate and native range: World Checklist of Vascular Plants, Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (CC BY 3.0), reformatted; see Plants of the World Online.
