small prostrate or ascending shrub having scarlet flowers and succulent fruit resembling cranberries; sometimes placed in genus Styphelia

[ Syn: native cranberry , ground-berry , 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 , ground-berry , creeping wintergreen , gaultheria procumbens ]