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Vaccinium boreale
Also called Sweet Hurts, Alpine Blueberry
Vaccinium boreale is a low, creeping subarctic and subalpine shrub, up to about 9 cm tall, that forms dense colonies and bears small edible blue berries. It is a wild species rather than a garden plant, so it is best observed in its native habitat or grown from wild-collected stock with cool, moist, acidic conditions.
Vaccinium boreale, common name northern blueberry, sweet hurts, or bleuet boréal (in French), is a plant species native to North America.
Lowbush blueberries, sometimes called "wild blueberries", are generally not planted by farmers, but rather are cultivated and picked wild on berry fields called "barrens".
The species is native to the northeastern United States and eastern Canada. It has been found in Québec, New Brunswick, Nova Scotia, Newfoundland and Labrador, Maine, New Hampshire, Vermont, and New York State. It grows in tundra (arctic or alpine), rocky uplands, and in open conifer forests at elevations up to 2,000 metres (6,600 ft).
Lowbush blueberry · Farkleberry · Sea bilberry · New Jersey blueberry · Dwarf bilberry · Highbush blueberry · Creeping blueberry · Azorean Bilberry · Darrow's blueberry · Elliott's blueberry · Southern mountain cranberry · Andean blueberry
Text excerpted from the Wikipedia article Vaccinium boreale 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.
