What is "gaultheria hispidula"

maidenhair berry \maidenhair berry\ n. A slow-growing procumbent evergreen shrublet ( Gaultheria hispidula) of Northern North America and Japan having white flowers and numerous white fleshy rough-hairy seeds.

Syn: creeping snowberry, moxie plum, Gaultheria hispidula.

Gaultheria hispidula, commonly known as the creeping snowberry or moxie-plum, is a spreading ground-level vine of the heath family Ericaceae native to North America that produces small white edible berries. It fruits from August to September. Its leaves and berries taste and smell like wintergreen.