groundberry

Meanings

• small prostrate or ascending shrub having scarlet flowers and succulent fruit resembling cranberries; sometimes placed in genus Styphelia
• creeping shrub of eastern North America having white bell-shaped flowers followed by spicy red berrylike fruit and shiny aromatic leaves that yield wintergreen oil

Synonyms

• native cranberry
• ground-berry
• cranberry heath
• Astroloma humifusum
• Styphelia humifusum
• teaberry
• wintergreen
• checkerberry
• mountain tea
• creeping wintergreen
• Gaultheria procumbens

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