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Gaylussacia brachycera, commonly known as box huckleberry or box-leaved whortleberry, is a low North American shrub related to the blueberry and the other huckleberries. It is native to the east-central United States (Pennsylvania, Delaware, Maryland, Virginia, West Virginia, North Carolina, Kentucky, and Tennessee).
Jun 7, 2024 · Box huckleberry ( G. brachycera ), native to the eastern and central United States, can form huge clones, some of which are thousands of years old, by vegetative reproduction. The red huckleberry ( Vaccinium parvifolium) of the southern United States is commonly called the southern cranberry.
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Aug 1, 2013 · Gaylussacia brachycera, the box huckleberry, is a native, semi-evergreen groundcover that tolerates difficult conditions. It has attractive white flowers in spring, nice foliage through the summer, and rich fall color that holds into the winter.
box huckleberry G. brachycera is a small, evergreen shrub with glossy, green leaves turning burgundy in fall. This species prefers acidic, moist but well-drained (sandy or rocky) sites, and works as a great groundcover that can cover a very large area in just a few years.
It is a low-growing evergreen shrub that spreads rhizomes and forms a colony in time, often a solid mat or a dense broad mound. The thick, dark, glossy leaves, about 1/2 to 1 inch long, develop a reddish-purple tinge in winter.
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Apr 4, 1991 · The box huckleberry is a dwarf (1-4 dm) evergreen shrub that forms large, solid-mat, self-sterile colonies, each one appearing to consist of a single clone that may extend over 8 acres! One colony in Perry county Pennsylvania (the Amity-Hall area) is about a mile long.
Gaylussacia brachycera is a rare and distinctive species. It is low growing, forming dense mats no taller than 18". The leaves are unusual for a huckleberry: they are evergreen, turning bronze in winter, small, glossy, and in most ways resembling those of boxwoods, hence the common name "box huckleberry".
