Vaccinium ovatum - Evergreen huckleberry

Evergreen huckleberry (Vaccinium ovatum) is an evergreen shrub native to the Pacific coast of North America, its dark berries edible raw, cooked, or dried into a tea with the leaves.¹

Inputs

• Hardiness zone 3¹
• Hardiness zone 4¹
• Hardiness zone 5¹
• Hardiness zone 6¹
• Hardiness zone 7¹
• Full sun¹
• Semi-shade¹
• Well drained soil¹
• Moist soil¹

Outputs

• Human food¹
• Medicinal use¹

Type

• Vaccinium spp. - Blueberry
• Shrub
• Evergreen

Functions

• Fire resistance²

Footnotes

1. Vaccinium ovatum | Plants for a Future ↩ ↩² ↩³ ↩⁴ ↩⁵ ↩⁶ ↩⁷ ↩⁸ ↩⁹ ↩¹⁰ ↩¹¹ ↩¹²

2. Leaf burn times of California native plants, Las Pilitas Nursery, 2005 propane-torch ignition trial, live-leaf ignition time >60 seconds ↩