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Gaylussacia dumosa
Also called Gopherberry
Dwarf huckleberry is a low, bushy deciduous shrub of eastern North America that spreads from a rhizome and sprouts back readily after fire. It grows in dry or moist sites such as pine barrens and bogs, and its berries are the main feature.
Gaylussacia dumosa is a species of flowering plant in the heath family known by the common names dwarf huckleberry, bush huckleberry, and gopherberry. It is native to eastern North America from Newfoundland to Louisiana and Florida. It occurs along the coastal plain and in the mountains.
This shrub branches from the base and grows erect to a maximum height around 75 centimeters (30 inches). It grows from a rhizome. The young twigs are coated in curly hairs. The deciduous leaves are oval, leathery, and glandular. The inflorescence is a raceme of bell-shaped flowers. The fruit is a berry. The plant reproduces by seed and by sprouting from the rhizome. It sprouts readily after episodes of wildfire.
Black huckleberry · Bog Huckleberry · Box huckleberry · Blue huckleberry · Woolly huckleberry · Blue Ridge Huckleberry · Gaylussacia pulchra · Hairytwig huckleberry · Bear huckleberry
Text excerpted from the Wikipedia article Gaylussacia dumosa 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.
