The phrase "a lowbush" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used to refer to a type of shrub or plant that grows low to the ground, often in the context of discussing flora or gardening.
Example: "The garden was filled with vibrant flowers and a lowbush that attracted many butterflies."
Alternatives: "a low shrub" or "a ground-hugging bush".
We are, too!" They smiled and continued down slope, past a bank of lowbush blueberries and white wood asters.
Recently, Lacombe et al. [ 70] studied the composition and functional potential of the colon microbiota from rats fed a diet enriched in lowbush wild blueberries.
But I think a more attractive species is the lowbush blueberry, V. angustifolium, which grows up to two feet tall.
The remaining pine barrens are dominated by pitch pine (Pinus rigida), a tall shrub layer consisting of bear oak and dwarf chestnut oak (Quercus ilicifolia and Quercus prinoides), and a low shrub layer composed of lowbush blueberries (Vaccinium angustifolium and Vaccinium pallidum), black huckleberry (Gaylussacia baccata), and sweet fern (Comptonia peregrina).
If your blueberries grow less than a foot annually (or less than 4 inches for lowbush plants), your may want to try using a natural fertilizer to boost the plant's productivity.
Commercially harvested blueberry species in North America include lowbush (wild) blueberry Vaccinium angustifolium, a low, spreading shrub grown in managed stands in the Northern US and Canada, and the highbush blueberry species Vaccinium corymbosum and Vaccinium ashei, which are larger shrubs grown in orderly rows in orchards that require annual pruning to maintain productivity.
Sixteen (29%) of these 56 species utilize scrub oak as a larval host and eight species (14%) use lowbush blueberries (Vaccinium angustifolium and V. pallidum).
Lowbush blueberry, on the other hand, is a managed wild crop, and little effort has been made to breed improved varieties.
According to Wikipedia, "wild" has been adopted as a marketing term for harvests of managed native stands of lowbush blueberries.
Lowbush blueberries were ripe and at one point I followed a couple of hundred yards behind a black bear eating its fill.
