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Vaccinium ovatum - stiff bushy evergreen shrub of western North America having sour black berries and glossy green foliage used in floral arrangements

evergreen huckleberry

blueberry, blueberry bush - any of numerous shrubs of the genus Vaccinium bearing blueberries

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biloba) in Baltimore, New York, and Philadelphia; African-Americans in Baltimore and Philadelphia foraged young pokeweed shoots (Phytolacca americana); and American Indians in Seattle harvested evergreen huckleberries (Vaccinium ovatum) and nettle leaves (Urtica dioica).

Gathering "wild" food in the city: rethinking the role of foraging in urban ecosystem planning and management

in several instances we have found them as much as 36 feet in the girth or 12 feet diameter perfectly solid and entire, they frequently rise to the hight of 230 feet, and one hundred and twenty or 30 of that hight without a limb." Closer to earth he noted the western bracken (Pteridium aquilinum pubescens), its root "much like wheat dough and not very unlike it in flavour, though it has also a pungency which becomes more visible after you have chewed it for some time; this pungency was disagreeable to me, but the natives eat it voraciously." The fruit of the salal (Gaultheria shallon) was prepared by the Indians in much the same fashion as the evergreen huckleberry (Vaccinium ovatum), the berries mashed and dried in large cakes weighing as much as 10 or 15 pounds.

Undaunted botany: even while struggling to survive, Lewis & Clark took time to stop and name the flowers

Axis 1 Axis 2 Oregon Low Picea sitchensis Quercus garryana Umbellularia californica Quercus kelloggii Alnus rubra Fraxinus latifolia Rhamnus purshiana Juniperus occidentalis Menziesia ferruginea Arctostaphylos viscida Vaccinium ovatum Rhus diversiloba Vaccinium parvifiorum Lonicera hispidula Rubus spectabilis Ceanothus integerrimus Oplopanax horridum Rubus discolor Sambucus racemosa Symphoricarpos spp.

Regional gradient analysis and spatial pattern of woody plant communities of Oregon forests