Dwarf Huckleberry

Groundcover for dry sites. Clonal (forms small clumps of stems).It has deep red foliage in fall.

Not salt tolerant of inundation by salty or brackish water.



Low/no tolerance of salty wind or direct salt spray

Slow growing and difficult to establish.

Birds and small mammals eat the fruit.

Sandhills, flatwoods, flatwoods, flatwoods-wetland transition zones, hydric seep slopes including cutthroat seeps and edges of shrub-tree bogs, scrubby flatwoods, scrub.

• Fall color, Showy flowers
• Attracts native bees includeing Augochlorella aurata, A. gratiosa, Megachile breuis pseudobrevis, M. integrella plus the non-native Apis mellifera (honeybee) and Bombus irnpatiens  (Deyrup et al. 2002).