25.
Vaccinium ovatum
Pursh, Fl. Amer. Sept. 1: 290. 1813.
California huckleberry
Vaccinium
ovatum
var.
saporosum
Jepson
Plants
clump- or crown-forming; twigs ± terete, pilose.
Leaf blades
pale green abaxially, lustrous dark green adaxially, narrowly ovate, 21-29 × 8-12 mm, coriaceous, margins sharply serrate, surfaces glandular abaxially.
Flowers:
corolla pinkish, 3-5 mm; filaments hairy.
Berries
black or blue, 6-8 mm diam.
2
n
= 24.
Flowering early spring-mid summer. Edges of coniferous forests, also epiphytic on trunks of redwoods; 0-30 m; B.C.; Calif., Oreg., Wash.
