BANGOR DAILY NEWS • June 3, 2022
As my hiking companions trudged up the mountain ahead of me, I crouched to inspect tiny, vibrant, red blossoms on a trailside bush. I fished out my phone and opened the Seek mobile app, which uses image recognition technology to identify plants and animals. According to the app, I was looking at a black huckleberry bush. That sounded correct (and I later confirmed it with the guidebook, “Plants of Acadia”).