Vaccinium angustifolium (Lowbush Blueberry)

Vaccinium angustifolium (Lowbush Blueberry) is an American beauty that puts on a long-lasting show in the landscape. In spring, it features attractive clusters of small, waxy, white, pink-tinged, bell-shaped flowers. They are followed by abundant, juicy, and edible blue berries in summer – a delight for birds, wildlife, and humans alike! Its glossy, lustrous foliage turns from reddish-green in spring to bluish-green in summer and to spectacular shades of bronze, scarlet and crimson in fall. Even winter provides charming interest with the yellow-green to reddish twiggy branches forming a lovely silhouette.

• This open-growing groundcover grows in a low, straggling shrub, up to 2 ft. tall and wide (60 cm).
• A full sun to part shade lover, this plant is best grown in average, medium, well-drained, acidic soils.
• Recipient of the Cary Award which recognizes plants that are particularly adequate for New England, offer superior landscape appeal and are winter hardy and pest resistant.
• Mass in mixed shrub borders or as ground cover. Great flowering shrub with Rhododendrons and Azaleas.
• Native to the northeastern United States.