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Vaccinium uliginosum
Also called Alpine bilberry, Bog bilberry, Bog Whortleberry, Northern bilberry, Tundra Bilberry, Western Huckleberry, Alpine Blueberry
Bog blueberry is a small deciduous shrub of cool northern regions, growing wet acidic moorland, heath and tundra. It is best grown in cool, moist, acidic conditions, and its sweet berries are edible.
Vaccinium uliginosum (bog bilberry, bog blueberry, alpine blueberry or western blueberry) is a Eurasian and North American flowering plant in the heath family. The berries are edible.
The plant is native to cool temperate regions of the Northern Hemisphere, at low altitudes in the Arctic, Baltics, and at high altitudes south to the Pyrenees, the Alps, and the Caucasus in Europe, the mountains of Mongolia, northern China, the Korean Peninsula and central Japan in Asia, and the Sierra Nevada in California and the Rocky Mountains in Utah in North America.
The berries can be eaten raw or cooked, used to make jelly or pies, or dried to make pemmican.
Lowbush blueberry · Farkleberry · Northern blueberry · Sea bilberry · New Jersey blueberry · Dwarf bilberry · Highbush blueberry · Creeping blueberry · Azorean Bilberry · Darrow's blueberry · Elliott's blueberry · Southern mountain cranberry
Text excerpted from the Wikipedia article Vaccinium uliginosum 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.
