Ericaceae
Red huckleberry
Vaccinium parvifolium
- Family
- Ericaceae
- Genus
- Vaccinium
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Common names
By language (6)
- Chinese
- 小叶越橘, 小葉越橘
- English
- Red huckleberry
- French
- Airelle à petites feuilles
- Igbo
- Red huckleberry
- Japanese
- レッド・ハックルベリー
- Russian
- Вакциниум мелколистный
Flowers
- Flower colour
- white (USDA PLANTS Database)
Characteristics
- Growth habit
- Shrub
- Lifespan
- Perennial
- In the US and Canada
- Alaska: native, Canada: native, Lower 48 states: native
Photos
Photo: Meggar at English Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 3.0, from Wikimedia Commons 
Photo: Walter Siegmund, CC BY 2.5, from Wikimedia Commons 
Photo: No machine-readable author provided. Wsiegmund assumed, CC BY 2.5, from Wikimedia Commons 
Photo: Walter Siegmund, CC BY 2.5, from Wikimedia Commons 
Photo: Walter Siegmund, CC BY 2.5, from Wikimedia Commons 
Photo: Walter Siegmund, CC BY 2.5, from Wikimedia Commons 
Photo: Walter Siegmund, CC BY-SA 3.0, from Wikimedia Commons 
Photo: Walter Siegmund, CC BY-SA 3.0, from Wikimedia Commons
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Sources: classification from World Flora Online Plant List (2026-06, CC0 1.0); common names, popularity from Wikidata (2026-10-26, CC0 1.0); common names, US characteristics from USDA PLANTS Database (2025-05-29, CC0 1.0). About our plant data.