Vaccinium ovatumPursh

Evergreen Huckleberry

WFO wfo-0001047102 Accepted WFO 2026-06 8 photographs CC0 / CC BY

Plate 1 figs. a–h

Vaccinium ovatum, photographed by Ashwin Srinivasan
fig. a Ashwin Srinivasan, CC BY 4.0 / 2022-05-22 / obs. 201941451
Vaccinium ovatum, photographed by Randal
fig. b Randal, CC0 1.0 / obs. 205162433
Vaccinium ovatum, photographed by Alexander Wentworth
fig. c Alexander Wentworth, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 204657063
Vaccinium ovatum, photographed by Shane Johnson
fig. d Shane Johnson, CC0 1.0 / obs. 198975662
Vaccinium ovatum, photographed by Arvel Hernandez
fig. e Arvel Hernandez, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 199491485
Vaccinium ovatum, photographed by Shane Johnson
fig. f Shane Johnson, CC0 1.0 / obs. 198966364
Vaccinium ovatum, photographed by James H. Thomas
fig. g James H. Thomas, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 199533764
Vaccinium ovatum, photographed by Dutza K.
fig. h Dutza K., CC BY 4.0 / obs. 197718470

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Confused withby our own model

These are not lookalikes we guessed at. Each one is a species our identification model genuinely mistook for this plant, and how many times. The error rate is published.

Flowering n = 986 observations

Peak flowering in May, from 986 community-annotated observations worldwide. This is a global aggregate, not a forecast for your garden: the same species flowers on different dates in different hemispheres, and citizen-science records cluster near cities, at weekends, and in spring. Where a species has fewer than 30 annotated records we do not draw this chart at all.

Also published as 5 synonyms

A synonym is not an error. It is a record of botanists disagreeing, in print, about where this plant belongs. Each of these was somebody’s considered answer.

  • Metagonia ovata (Pursh) Nutt.
  • Metagonia pyxothamnus Nutt.
  • Vaccinium lanceolatum DC. ex Dunal
  • Vaccinium ovatum var. ovatum
  • Vaccinium prunifolium Lodd. ex Loudon

Sourcesevery claim on this page

  1. World Flora Online Plant List. accepted name, authority, classification. CC0. Retrieved 2026-07-12.
  2. iNaturalist. photographs and flowering annotations, CC0 / CC BY / CC BY-SA only. per photograph. Retrieved 2026-06-27.

We publish what we can source and we say so when we cannot. This page has no care advice, no toxicity claim and no native range, because we do not yet have those from a source we can cite.