Wildlife
Blue huckleberry
Vaccinium membranaceum
Habitat
Fort Clatsop
Conservation
Apparently secure
This is the most important huckleberry in the Pacific Northwest. A feast marked the annual migration to the berry areas.
Journal References
8 journal entries mention Blue huckleberry
Jan
26
1806
Clark: January 26, 1806
...he chase.
The or deep purple berry is in form much like the huckleberry and
termonate bluntly with a kind of Cap or cover at the end like that fruit;
they are attached S...
Feb
4
1806
Clark: February 4, 1806
... which
are yet green. in the woddey Countrey their food is huckleberry bushes,
fern, and the Shal-lon an evergreen Shrub, which resembles the Lorel in
Some measure; the...
Feb
7
1806
Lewis: February 7, 1806
...ates is also common in this quarter. There is a
species of huckleberry common to the piny lands from the commencement of
the Columbian valley to the seacoast; it rises t...
Feb
11
1806
Lewis: February 11, 1806
...ng. the fruit is a small deep
perple berry like the common huckleberry of a pleasent flavor. they are
seperately scattered & attatched to the small boughs by short
pedu...
Mar
2
1806
Clark: March 2, 1806
... as other Pheasants &c. feed also
on the buds of the Small Huckleberry bushes
Apr
5
1806
Clark: April 5, 1806
... leafed Ash and Sweet
Willow that of the bottom lands. The Huckleberry, shallon, and the Several
evergreen Shrubs, of that Speces that bears berries have Seased to appea...
Jun
16
1806
Clark: June 16, 1806
...d; the dog tooth Violet is just in blume, the
honeysuckle, huckleberry and a Small Species of white maple are beginning
to put foth their leaves, where they are clear of...
Jun
28
1806
Clark: June 28, 1806
... the
leaves of the pine & fir. there is a Species of Small huckleberry
common to the hights of the mountains, and a Species of grass with a broad
succulent leaf which l...