groundberry

Noun

• 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

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

Related words

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