Vaccinium boreale, common name northern blueberry, sweet hurts, or bleuet boréal (in French), is a plant species native to North America.

Vaccinium boreale is a lowbush blueberry,[1] forming a small shrub up to 9 centimetres (3+1⁄2 in) tall, in dense colonies of many individuals.

Leaves are deciduous, narrowly elliptic, up to 21 millimetres (7⁄8 in) long, with teeth along the margins.

[7] It has been found in Québec, New Brunswick, Nova Scotia, Newfoundland and Labrador, Maine, New Hampshire, Vermont, and New York State.

It grows in tundra (arctic or alpine), rocky uplands, and in open conifer forests at elevations up to 2,000 metres (6,600 ft).