Vaccinium oxycoccos is a species of cranberry in the heath family. It is known as small cranberry, marshberry, bog cranberry, swamp cranberry, [5] or (particularly in Britain) just cranberry. [6] It occurs broadly across cooler climates in the temperate Northern Hemisphere.

SPECIES: Vaccinium oxycoccos GENERAL BOTANICAL CHARACTERISTICS: Small cranberry is a very small, prostrate, evergreen shrub. The slender stems are vinelike, and root at the nodes.

Small cranberry is distinguished from the other creeping cranberry of wetlands, large cranberry (Vaccinium macrocarpon) by its smaller, oval leaves with acute tips and margins that roll under. The berry of this species is also smaller and drier in texture.

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Form: A creeping, prostrate sprawling shrub up to 18 inches tall. They often form dense mats over swampy areas. Additional Range Information: Vaccinium oxycoccos is native to North America. Range may be expanded by planting. Download the full-size PDF map. Virginia Tech Dendrology is THE source for tree identification.

Vaccinium oxycoccos L. Plant Symbol = VAOX . Contributed by: USDA NRCS National Plant Data Team, Greensboro, NC . Small cranberries growing in a bog on the western Olympic Peninsula, Washington. Photograph by Jacilee Wray, 2006. Alternate Names Bog cranberry, swamp cranberry, wild cranberry Uses Said to have a superior flavor to the cultivated

An evergreen creeping (vine-like) shrub usually found in sphagnum bogs. Plant Type: Shrub. Distribution: This plant grows from Alaska to California (including British Columbia), east to Idaho, and from the upper Midwest across the U. S. and Canada to the Atlantic coast.

1 to 4 nodding flowers on long stalks, arising singly from axils of leaf-like bracts at the base of new shoots, the shoots rarely elongating. Flowers are ¼ to 3/8 inch long, white to pinkish with 4 narrowly lance shaped petals that tightly curl back, like a lily.

Vaccinium oxycoccos grow and care – subshrub of the genus Vaccinium also known as oxycoccus palustris or Cranberry, Vaccinium oxycoccos perennial evergreen plant also used as ornamental ground cover plant, grow in temperate climate and growing in hardiness zone 3-7.

Vaccinium oxycoccos is a species of flowering plant in the heath family. It is known by the common names small cranberry, bog cranberry, swamp cranberry, or, particularly in Britain and The Netherlands, just cranberry.