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Vaccinium myrtilloides
Also called Velvet-leaved blueberry, Velvetleaf Blueberry, Sourtop, Canada Blueberry, Sourtop Blueberry, Sour Top Blueberry
Velvetleaf huckleberry is a low, spreading deciduous shrub native to cool northern North America, often forming small thickets. It is grown for its small, sweet blue berries, which are among the sweetest of wild blueberries, and needs acidic soil and cold winters.
Vaccinium myrtilloides is a North American species of blueberry with common names including common blueberry, velvetleaf huckleberry, velvetleaf blueberry, Canadian blueberry, and sourtop blueberry.
Vaccinium myrtilloides is cultivated and grown commercially in Canada and Maine, primarily harvested from managed wild patches. The edible fruit is one of the sweetest blueberries known.
It is common in much of North America, reported from all 10 Canadian provinces plus Nunavut and Northwest Territories, as well as from the northeastern and Great Lakes states in the United States. It is also known to occur in Montana and Washington.
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Text excerpted from the Wikipedia article Vaccinium myrtilloides 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.
