Black Huckleberry
Gaylussacia baccata
Pink and red flowers from April into June, worked by mining bees and cellophane bees. It grows wild in 19 of West Virginia’s 55 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
- 36 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
Robin's-plantain
Sweet Goldenrod
Wrinkle-leaf Goldenrod
Small's Ragwort
Narrowleaf SundropsFacts from the Quercus record for Gaylussacia baccata.