Index / Search / Gaylussacia frondosa
§1 Plant
Gaylussacia frondosa (L.) Torr. & A. Gray ex Torr.
vernacular blue huckleberry — species · Ericaceae
§2Habit & range
Habit and range
- Growth habit
- Shrub
- Duration
- Perennial
- Group
- Dicot
- Family
- Ericaceae Juss.
- Genus
- Gaylussacia
§2a
Native status, by region
- L48 Lower 48 States Native
§2b
County-level range
· 231 counties across 16 states/territories§3Cultivation specs · USDA
Recorded by the USDA Plant Materials Program.
§3a
Tolerances
- Drought
- High
- Shade
- Low
- Moisture use
- Low
- Fire
- High
- Salinity
- None
- Anaerobic
- None
- CaCO₃
- None
- Hedging
- Medium
§3b
Climate & soil
- Cold tolerance
- -23 °F minimum
- Frost-free days
- 155 min.
- Precipitation
- 32–60 in/yr
- pH range
- 3.8–5.5
- Root depth
- 18 in min.
- Fertility need
- Low
- Soil texture
- coarse
§3c
Form & growth
- Growth form
- Multiple Stem
- Growth rate
- Slow
- Lifespan
- Long
- Mature height
- 6 ft
- Height @ 20 y
- 6 ft
- Foliage texture
- Medium
- Foliage colour
- Green
- Porosity (summer)
- Moderate
- Porosity (winter)
- Porous
- Flower colour
- White
- Fruit colour
- Black
- Fire resistant
- No
- N fixation
- None
- Toxicity
- None
§3d
Reproduction
- Bloom period
- Mid Spring
- Seed abundance
- Low
- Seed begins
- Summer
- Seed ends
- Summer
- Spread rate
- Slow
- Stratify
- Yes
- Seeds / lb
- 354,000
- Propagation
- seed, bare root, container
§3e
Use & availability
- Commercial availability
- No Known Source
- Nursery stock
- No
- Palatable, human
- Yes
- Lumber
- No
- Christmas tree
- No
§4Counties, by state
Recorded in 231 counties across 16 states/territories.
Alabama view state ↗ 12 N ▾
Delaware view state ↗ 2 N ▾
District of Columbia view state ↗ 1 N ▾
Georgia view state ↗ 2 N ▾
Kentucky view state ↗ 1 N ▾
Massachusetts view state ↗ 13 N ▾
Mississippi view state ↗ 6 N ▾
New Hampshire view state ↗ 3 N ▾
New Jersey view state ↗ 20 N ▾
New York view state ↗ 17 N ▾
North Carolina view state ↗ 51 N ▾
- Alamance 37001
- Anson 37007
- Beaufort 37013
- Bertie 37015
- Bladen 37017
- Brunswick 37019
- Cabarrus 37025
- Carteret 37031
- Chatham 37037
- Chowan 37041
- Columbus 37047
- Craven 37049
- Cumberland 37051
- Currituck 37053
- Dare 37055
- Davidson 37057
- Duplin 37061
- Edgecombe 37065
- Gates 37073
- Greene 37079
- Guilford 37081
- Halifax 37083
- Harnett 37085
- Hertford 37091
- Hoke 37093
- Hyde 37095
- Johnston 37101
- Jones 37103
- Lee 37105
- Lenoir 37107
- Martin 37117
- Montgomery 37123
- Nash 37127
- New Hanover 37129
- Northampton 37131
- Onslow 37133
- Pamlico 37137
- Pasquotank 37139
- Pender 37141
- Pitt 37147
- Richmond 37153
- Robeson 37155
- Sampson 37163
- Scotland 37165
- Stanly 37167
- Tyrrell 37177
- Union 37179
- Wake 37183
- Washington 37187
- Wayne 37191
- Wilson 37195
Pennsylvania view state ↗ 33 N ▾
- Adams 42001
- Beaver 42007
- Bedford 42009
- Berks 42011
- Bucks 42017
- Carbon 42025
- Centre 42027
- Chester 42029
- Clearfield 42033
- Clinton 42035
- Columbia 42037
- Cumberland 42041
- Dauphin 42043
- Delaware 42045
- Erie 42049
- Franklin 42055
- Lackawanna 42069
- Lancaster 42071
- Lebanon 42075
- Lehigh 42077
- Luzerne 42079
- Lycoming 42081
- Monroe 42089
- Montgomery 42091
- Northampton 42095
- Northumberland 42097
- Philadelphia 42101
- Pike 42103
- Schuylkill 42107
- Snyder 42109
- Union 42119
- Warren 42123
- Wayne 42127
Rhode Island view state ↗ 4 N ▾
South Carolina view state ↗ 19 N ▾
Vermont view state ↗ 1 N ▾
Virginia view state ↗ 46 N ▾
- Accomack 51001
- Arlington 51013
- Augusta 51015
- Caroline 51033
- Charles City 51036
- Chesapeake (city) 51550
- Chesterfield 51041
- Craig 51045
- Dinwiddie 51053
- Essex 51057
- Fairfax 51059
- Giles 51071
- Gloucester 51073
- Greensville 51081
- Hampton (city) 51650
- Hanover 51085
- Henrico 51087
- Isle of Wight 51093
- James City 51095
- King and Queen 51097
- King George 51099
- King William 51101
- Lancaster 51103
- Louisa 51109
- Mathews 51115
- Middlesex 51119
- New Kent 51127
- Newport News (city) 51700
- Northampton 51131
- Northumberland 51133
- Page 51139
- Prince George 51149
- Prince William 51153
- Richmond 51159
- Rockbridge 51163
- Scott 51169
- Southampton 51175
- Spotsylvania 51177
- Stafford 51179
- Suffolk (city) 51800
- Surry 51181
- Sussex 51183
- Tazewell 51185
- Virginia Beach (city) 51810
- Westmoreland 51193
- York 51199
§5Sources & provenance
USDA PLANTS
Symbol, taxonomy, distribution, cultivation specs, native status. Public domain.
plants.usda.gov/GAFR2 ↗GBIF Backbone
Canonical taxonomic identity, synonym resolution, cross-refs. CC0.
gbif.org/species/2882729 ↗Record version
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