Huckleberry leaves, now spotted red from the ... She drew the thin stems toward her and plucked the deep-purple berries. Huckleberries don’t commonly grow in bunches; just one or two grow ...

Susan Jim held each dark purple berry with the tips of her fingers. One by one, she picked off oval-shaped leaves stuck to ...

The evergreen huckleberry, Vaccinium ovatum, is turning purple all over Washington’s coastal regions but perhaps nowhere more than the Key Peninsula, where berry culture goes back decades.