Fool's Huckleberry
Menziesia ferruginea
A huckleberry look-alike (hence 'fool's') of moist mountain forests, with clusters of small salmon-pink urn flowers and sticky, skunky-scented foliage that colors well in fall. For cool, acidic shade.
- Family
- Ericaceae
- Type
- shrub
- Lifespan
- perennial
- Height
- 3–8 ft
- Spacing
- 3–6 ft apart
- Light
- sun, part shade, shade
- Soil moisture
- moist
- Soil pH
- acidic
- Bloom
- May, June, July
- Bloom colors
- white, red, pink, yellow, green
- Wildlife value
- pollinators, hummingbirds
- Landscape uses
- specimen, hedge or screen, foundation
- Native states
- AK, CA, ID, MN, MT, OR, WA, WY