How to Know the Wild Flowers

The book that taught America botany by color: find your flower under White, Yellow, Pink or Blue, and read its name, its haunts and its folklore — the first field guide organized the way people actually look.

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Squaw Huckleberry

Vaccinium stamineum. Heath Family.

Two or three feet high. Stems.--Diffusely branched. Flowers.--Greenish-white or purplish; suggesting somewhat those of the blueberry and huckleberry, but noticeable especially for their protruding stamens. Fruit.--A globular or pear-shaped, few-seeded berry.

This large greenish or yellowish berry is hardly edible. The flowers appear in June, and are easily recognized by their protruding stamens. The leaves are pale green above and whitish underneath.

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