Black Huckleberry : Vaccinium membranaceum

Plant type: deciduous shrub
Height: 5'

Light: part shade
Soil: moist, well drained

PPL: no

Alias mountain huckleberry. As seen perhaps on your last hike on Mt. St. Helens.
Spreads by rhizomes, a sweet little fire adapted, subalpine plant. Delicious berries.

Flowers are cream to yellow and are for whom the bell-shaped flower tolls.

berry image: CC2, julie, flickr.com/people/71443175@N00