SKU: SV00920

Vaccinium angustifolium - Lowbush Blueberry makes a nice groundcover for sunny, dry areas. Has edible berries. Also good for slope stabilization. A great plant for school gardens to introduce children to plants used as food.

Height: 1-2 feet
Spread: 1-2 feet
Flowers: May-June, White to pinkish urn-shaped
Fruit: July-Aug, Blueberries
Fall Color: Red
Light: Full sun to part-shade
Moisture: Dry to moist
Soil Type: Clay, loam, or sand
Soil pH: 4-6

Wildlife value: Fruits provide food for many species including black bear, red fox, raccoon, red-backed vole, and many species of mice, birds - American robin, common crow, and eastern bluebird. Wildlife species that eat the fruits of Vaccinium spp. in general include: mammals - white-footed mouse, fox squirrel, red squirrel, eastern spotted skunk, gray fox, and many species of chipmunks; birds - wild turkey, ruffed grouse, spruce grouse, gray catbird, brown thrasher, rufous-sided towhee, northern mockingbird, black-capped chickadee, red-cockaded woodpecker, starling, cardinal, scarlet tanager, Canada goose, herring gull,whimbrel, quail, and thrushes. Blueberry is also good deer and moose browse. Pollinated by bees.
Notes of Interest: Mulch around plants to keep weeds down. Plant several varieties for plants to cross-pollinate and fruit. Low sweet blueberry is the most important commercial blueberry in the northeastern United States and Canada. Blueberry picking is an important recreational activity in many areas. In the early 1980's, an estimated 20 percent of all summer tourists engaged in blueberry picking in parts of the Great Lakes region.