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Vaccinium membranaceum
Also called Montana Huckleberry, Siskiyou Mountain Huckleberry, Black Huckleberry, Mountain Bilberry, Mountain Huckleberry, Square Twig Blueberry, Thin Leaf Huckleberry
Thinleaf huckleberry is a deciduous, erect shrub of cool mountain forests and meadows in western North America, reaching about 1.5 m tall. It grows best in cool, moist, well-drained conditions at higher elevations, and its berries are widely gathered for eating.
Vaccinium membranaceum is a species of flowering plant in the heath family Ericaceae, known by the common names thinleaf huckleberry, tall huckleberry, big huckleberry, mountain huckleberry, square-twig blueberry, and "black huckleberry".
Vaccinium membranaceum is native to western North America, with a range extending in the northern from southern Alaska, Yukon, and Northwest Territories south as far as Utah and the northern mountains of California. It can be found from the mountains next to the Pacific Ocean in the west, to the Rocky Mountains and Black Hills in the east.
The berry is edible. Vaccinium membranaceum is the most commonly collected of all of the wild western huckleberries and it has great commercial importance. In a good year, V. membranaceum shrubs provide a lot of fruit from late summer to early fall.
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Text excerpted from the Wikipedia article Vaccinium membranaceum 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.
