| Scientific Name: | Vaccinium vitis-idaea |
| Common Name: | lingonberry, small cranberry |
| Family Name: | Ericaceae |
| Origin: | Canada - northern, Europe |
| Hardiness Zone: | Zone 2: (-46 to -40 °C) |
| Plant Type: | Broadleaf evergreen, Ground cover |
| Mature Size: | 0.1 - 0.2m x 0.1 - 0.3m (height x width) |
| Habit: | Spreading |
| Form: | Creeping / Mat-like |
| Texture: | Fine |
| Landscape Uses: | Ground cover, Native planting, Wetland - bogs, Wildlife food |
| Exposure: | Full sun |
| Soil or Media: | Acidic, Bog |
| Leaves: | Simple, Alternate, Leathery, Glabrous, Elliptic, Obovate, Entire |
| Flowers: | Flowers clustered, White, Pink, Jul-Aug |
| Fruit: | Berry (true), Edible, Red, Jun-Jul-Aug |
| Key ID Features: | |
| Low, mat-forming shrub; stems 5-25cm long; leaves: alternate, evergreen, leathery, narrowly elliptic to egg-shaped, 6-15mm long x 2-9mm wide, rounded to shallowly notched at tips, shiny green above, pale with brownish or black stalked glands beneath, margins entire to slightly toothed, somewhat rolled under; nearly unstalked; flowers white to pink, bell-shaped, 4-6mm long, 4-lobed to the middle; calyces deeply lobed; berries, globe-shaped, 6-10mm wide, bright red. <a href ='http://linnet.geog.ubc.ca/Atlas/Atlas.aspx?sciname=Vaccinium%20vitis-idaea' target='_blank'>E-Flora BC</a> | |