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Sparkleberry

Vaccinium arboreum

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Field Notes

Description:

White-tailed deer, hares, and rabbits feed on the leaves. The fruit is eaten by a wide variety of birds and mammals, including black bears, deer, and chipmunks. The flowers provide food for bees. The

Twigs and leaves
wood has been used to make tool handles, smoking pipes, and craft items. The bark has been used for tanning leather

Habitat:

Sparkleberry grows on sand dunes, hammocks, dry hillsides, meadows, and in rocky woods. It also grows on a variety of moist sites such as wet bottomlands and along creek banks. Sparkleberry is found in most of the eastern United States between Texas and Florida in the south, to Virginia, Indiana, and Kansas in the north.

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