small prostrate or ascending shrub having scarlet flowers and succulent fruit resembling cranberries; sometimes placed in genus Styphelia
[ Syn: native cranberry , groundberry , cranberry heath , astroloma humifusum , styphelia humifusum ]
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 , checkerberry , mountain tea , groundberry , creeping wintergreen , gaultheria procumbens ]