Ericaceae is the family name. There is no alternative spelling, it was a typo on my part. (The comment above yours is edited to be clearer) Thank you for catching that. Plant family names end in ‘eae’.

Thank you for the description of Vaccinium and Gaylussacia. That is super interesting, I’ve never heard them referred to as “true huckleberries”.

Your comment points to the larger issue with common names. And I apologize if you know this, but hopefully it is helpful to folks who come across this post. Common names can be applied to two or more plants that aren’t related. They are colloquial and can apply to edible plants and poisonous plants at once. Some plants have multiple common names. Some plants have no common names at all because they have no existing functional relationship with humanity. Many common names are simply adopted from the species’ genera (I like this!). Common names cause confusion and muck up the clarity of botanical conversation of people across places/upbringings.

Cheers.

This has been the DNC playbook since Clinton.

Huckleberries and blueberries are not related closely at all. Huckleberries are in the nightshade family, Solanaceae. Blueberries are in the blueberry family, Ericaceae. Their morphologies, or growth forms, are very very different.

Eggplants, potatoes, ground cherries, tomatillos, huckleberries are all edible too. That said you are right, if it is growing in the wild assume it will kill you. Don’t eat it.

Yeah, water hemlock, cowbane, fool’s parsley, wild parsnip, etc, etc.

Apiaceae, the carrot family, is full of wild species that are incredibly poisonous. Basically if it looks like a carrot in the wild dont eat it or you might die.

War Goals: Annihilation of a people.

I agree that there are much better choices. Alas, Democrats are right of center and punch left.

I am not pro-Biden, but I’d vote for Harris. I think she’s a stronger candidate.

And we (the US) do it for soooo many public events for no reason! I was running in a marathon in Arkansas once where the host said that if anyone kneels during the anthem he will come and make them stand up. I just walked out after this and came back when the race started. There is only one reason: jingoism.

Can’t stop looking at the nose in the dude’s mouth.

Also those pesky necessary walls

All cult leaders:

Top left: David Koresh

Top right: Jim Jones

Bottom left: Hitler

Bottom right: Charles Manson

Offended. Those are margarine dogs.

Yeah I saw that you can block those in settings. I pointed out how that just presents a whack-a-mole scenario where the user has to keep at it instead of striking at the TLD.

Wow how terrible would that have been for the CPU/GPU industries.

Hurt. No question.

There is a ton of poverty/indigent/unhoused in CA too. When you have CEOs and venture capital hoovering up wealth, inequity is in stark relief.

From CA to MO, the inequity might look different, but neither hides it. That’s why CA has had population decreases two of the three past year.

The State level, like the State Department. I capitalized the word for clarity.

We terrorize the world with the threat of military and corporate alignment. We are dragging the world across the point of no return on climate change. We have fewer and fewer rights here while funding genocides. Kids get shot up at schools on the daily while police do nothing. Oddly those same police murder more and more black and brown people each year. Rents are skyrocketing. Healthcare is a goddamn joke. Groceries are ballooning in cost It is commonplace for people to work two or more jobs.

WTF is there to be prideful about at the State level?