Sometimes place in genus Styphelia

• Small prostrate or ascending shrub having scarlet flowers and succulent fruit resembling cranberries
• 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

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groundberry \groundberry\ n. A small prostrate or ascending shrub ( Astroloma humifusum ) having scarlet flowers and thin-fleshed succulent fruit resembling cranberries; sometimes placed in the genus Styphelia . Syn: native cranberry, cranberry heath, Astroloma ...

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Groundberry may refer to: Gaultheria procumbens Rubus hispidus

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n. small prostrate or ascending shrub having scarlet flowers and succulent fruit resembling cranberries; sometimes place in genus Styphelia [syn: native cranberry , ground-berry , cranberry heath , Astroloma humifusum , Styphelia humifusum ] creeping shrub ...