Wildlife

Evergreen huckleberry

Vaccinium ovatum
Habitat
Fort Clatsop
Conservation
Apparently secure

No specimen exists, but Lewis described the evergreen blueberry at Fort Clatsop. It is only found west of the Cascades.

Journal References

8 journal entries mention Evergreen 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...

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