I forgot to add the pics of the berries I cut open so you can see the color of the flesh and seeds.
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Huckleberries or some folks just call them blueberries. I like them better than blueberries, great for baking and I think they bruise less easily than blueberries.

Huckleberries. They have 10 larger hard seeds where blue berries are small and numerous. If you have a 10x magnifing glass you can look on the underside of the leave and see gold diamond shapes.
I have huckleberry bushes all over my woods, some are blue and some dark almost blackish.
I've used them in muffins and pound cakes.

Donna Mae

Hi there Donna! Thanks for the tip with the magnifying glass--I'll have to check that out. As far as the seeds go, do they generally always have 10 seeds? I guess I have to cut open a couple more and start counting. I do know that they do have a crunch to them (yes, I tried one just to see if it had any hint of a blueberry taste). But I didn't want to just guess that it was a huckleberry based on the crunch of the seeds inside ;)
Donna - do you by any chance have a pic of your bushes and berries so I could compare, especially since we live sort of in the same area?

o7sugar,
I don't have any pics, sorry.
The link is the type of huckleberry I have in my yard. More bluish than what you have. There are many different spieces as is with blueberries. I had never seen huckleberries until I moved here so I did some research before using them.
There is also a low bush huckleberry that is more black, like what you are showing. The leaves on your plant seem slightly different than my bushes too.

Here's a link with some info on black huckleberries.http://everything2.com/title/Huckleberry

The berries in my yard have 10 very hard seeds. I made muffins with them, definatly adds a crunch, not to crazy about that.
I think blueberries are more bluish inside.
Hoped this helped as I was leary at first using them since I knew they weren't bluberries.

Donna Mae

Here is a link that might be useful: