- Genus
- Gaultheria
- Family
- Ericaceae
- Common Names
- American mountain tea, aromatic wintergreen, boxberry, Canada tea, canterberry, chequerberry, chickenberry, chinks, creeping checkerberry, creeping wintergreen, creeping wintergreen checkerberry, drunkards, gingerberry, ground tea, groundberry, grouseberry, one-berry, partridge berry, procalm, red pollom, spiceberry, spicy wintergreen checkerberry, spring wintergreen, tea leaves, teaberry, wintergreen, wintergreen oil plant, youngsters
About this plant
G. procumbens is a dwarf evergreen shrub to 15cm in height, spreading indefinitely, with rounded leathery leaves, aromatic when crushed and turning reddish in winter. Small, bell-shaped white or pinkish flowers are followed by scarlet berries 10mm in width