Black Huckleberry
Gaylussacia baccata
Pink and red flowers from April into June, worked by mining bees and cellophane bees. It grows wild in 100 of Virginia’s 133 counties.
- Light
- Part shade to full sun
- Soil
- Dry to moist soil
- Size
- 2 ft to 3 ft tall, 3 ft wide
- Flowers
- Pink and red, Apr to Jun
- Leaves
- Deciduous
- Roots
- Woody roots; wants 14 in of soil
- Kind
- Shrub
At its grown size
in flowerfruit or seedfall colorbare for winter
What it feeds
- Caterpillars
- 45 kinds of caterpillars
- Bees
- 4 kinds of native bees
- Birds
- 11 kinds of birds
- On its flowers
- Mining bee (Andrena carolina), Mining bee (Andrena ceanothi), Mining bee (Andrena spiraeana), Cellophane bee (Colletes validus)
Grows well with
Bluestem Goldenrod
New Jersey Tea
Calico Aster
Small's Ragwort
Sweet Goldenrod
Wrinkle-leaf Goldenrod
Heartleaf Aster
Narrowleaf SundropsFacts from the Quercus record for Gaylussacia baccata.