GROUSE WHORTLEBERRY 
Vaccinium scoparium Leiberg 
FRUIT OF PLATE 169 
Grouse whortleberries mature rapidly, and by the middle of August 
the plants ate well fruited with pleasantly flavored bright ted berries. 
These ate much enjoyed by grouse, which ate usually found where 
the berries are plentiful. 
Grouse whortleberry occurs in the higher mountains from New 
Mexico to California, and northward to Alberta and British Columbia. 
The specimen sketched was collected in the valley of the Red Deer 
River twenty miles by trail from Lake Louise, Alberta, at an altitude 
of 6,000 feet. 
PLATE I70 
