Leaves are alternate, simple small elliptic, deciduous or persistent.
Twigs are slender, reddish or greenish, covered with many raised warts and often zigzag. Flowers bloom in spring or early summer and are small greenish-white or pinkish. Fruits are edible, often blue or blue-black and contain many small seeds. Squaw Huckleberry - Much branched shrub to 5 feet tall with hairy twigs. Late Low - Open shrub to 3 feet tall, forming colonies.