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
[ Syn: teaberry , wintergreen , mountain tea , groundberry , ground-berry , creeping wintergreen , gaultheria procumbens ]
spicy red berrylike fruit; source of wintergreen oil
[ Syn: wintergreen , boxberry , teaberry , spiceberry ]