Southern mountain cranberry

Description

Vaccinium erythrocarpum - also commonly known as mountain blueberry,southern mountain cranberry, bearberry, arando, and dingleberry- is a species of cranberry. Vaccinium erythrocarpum has an oddly discontinuous distribution, with one subspecies in the southeastern United States and the other in east Asia. Vaccinium erythrocarpum is a deciduous shrub. Its flowers bloom in June; the individual flowers are hermaphrodite and are pollinated by insects. They produce scarlet, transparent berries. It grows in woodlands and areas of dappled shade.