Other common names
American mountain tea, aromatic wintergreen, boxberry, Canada tea, canterberry, chequerberry, chickenberry, chinks, creeping checkerberry, creeping wintergreen, creeping wintergreen checkerberry, drunkards, gingerberry, ground tea, groundberry, grouseberry, one-berry, partridge berry, procalm, red pollom, spiceberry, spicy wintergreen checkerberry, spring wintergreen, tea leaves, teaberry, wintergreen, wintergreen oil plant, youngsters
Shrubs
A dwarf evergreen shrub to 15cm in height, spreading indefinitely, with rounded leathery leaves, aromatic when crushed and turning reddish in winter. Small, bell-shaped white or pinkish flowers are followed by scarlet berries 10mm in width
Position
Full shade, Partial shade
Soil Types
Clay, Loam, Sand
Max Height
0.1-0.5 metres
Max Spread
0.5-1 metres