Renewed interest sparked the discovery of other box huckleberry colonies elsewhere in the Appalachians. Box huckleberry is a low shrub, tall. About 100 separate stations for box huckleberry have been documented in the scientific literature. Box huckleberry prefers dry, acidic soils, including duff, and partial shade. Specimens of box huckleberry were subsequently identified in Delaware in 1870, by William M. Canby. Box huckleberry flowers in May and June. Box huckleberry is self-sterile, so single plants cannot reproduce sexually. The box huckleberry remained largely obscure until 1918, when Frederick V. Coville examined the site.