groundberry

Plural: groundberries

Noun

• 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
• Alternative form of ground berry.

Synonyms

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