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Gaylussacia bigeloviana
Also called Northern Dwarf Huckleberry
Bog huckleberry is a small, colony-forming shrub of acidic bogs, swamps and marshes in eastern Canada and the eastern United States, growing up to about 1 m tall. It needs consistently wet, acidic conditions similar to its native bogs.
Gaylussacia bigeloviana, also known as the northern dwarf huckleberry or in French as the gaylussaquier de Bigelow, is a plant species native to the coastal plains of eastern Canada and the eastern United States. It grows from Newfoundland to South Carolina in swamps and marshes, including acidic bogs alongside Sphagnum peatmosses.
Black 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 bigeloviana 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.
