Range: north central and north eastern North America
Habitat: dry rocky soils, barrens, mountain slopes, occasionally bogs
Harvest: ripens mid-summer, after raspberries but before blackberries
The sweet blueberry is a wild plant whose edible berries are collected and sold in fresh fruit markets or as canned fruit. The sweet berries are a valuable food source for wild life.
The late sweet blueberry also known as a low-bush blueberry, low sweet blueberry, and sweet-hurts. Usually stands less than 2’ tall, clusters of tiny white or pinkish bell-shaped flowers in May and June.
The leaves are glossy dark green in summer, turning beautiful shades of red in fall.
Late sweet blueberries mature in mid to late summer and are considered the most flavorful by many. Edible blue berries in late summer.
Late sweet blueberry
