Did you know that blueberry bushes are a common bog plant?
Blueberry plants are well adapt to, and therefore flourish in, the acidic soils found in bogs.
Highbush blueberry (Vaccinium corymbosum) can be spotted in this area. I
Interesting facts:
Blueberry plants are well adapt to, and therefore flourish in, the acidic soils found in bogs.
Highbush blueberry (Vaccinium corymbosum) can be spotted in this area. I
Interesting facts:
- Highbush blueberries are shrubs that can grow up to 10 feet tall!
- Blueberry plants grow in clusters of small white bell-shaped flowers that depend on bees and other insects for pollination.
- Some animals that eat highbush blueberry fruit are eastern bluebird, wild turkey, northern mockingbird, brown thrasher, mourning dove, american robin, red fox, eastern cottontail, and eastern chipmunk.
- Each blueberry contains hundreds of tiny seeds.
- Highbush blueberry reproduction depends on birds and animals to eat fruit and disperse the seeds in new places with their droppings.
