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Definition of Low-bush blueberry
1. Noun. Low-growing deciduous shrub of northeastern North America having flowers in compact racemes and bearing sweet dark blue berries.
Generic synonyms: Blueberry, Blueberry Bush
Lexicographical Neighbors of Low-bush Blueberry
Literary usage of Low-bush blueberry
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Standard Cyclopedia of Horticulture: A Discussion for the Amateur, and by Liberty Hyde Bailey (1914)
"... such as the common low-bush blueberry, V. pennsylvanicum, grow and fruit
abundantly in sandy uplands that are subject to drought, the swamp blueberry ..."
2. An Illustrated Flora of the Northern United States: Canada and the British by Nathaniel Lord Britton, Addison Brown (1897)
"Dwarf, Sugar or low-bush blueberry. (Fig. 2791.) V. Pennsylvanicum Lam. Encycl.
i: 74. 1783. A low branching shrub, 6'-2° high, similar to the preceding ..."
3. Nature's Garden: An Aid to Knowledge of Our Wild Flowers and Their Insect by Neltje Blanchan (1907)
"... or low-bush blueberry (Vaccinium Pennsylvanicum), sometimes six inches tall,
never more than twenty inches. It prefers sandy or rocky soil from southern ..."
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