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Vaccinium erythrocarpum
Also called Bearberry, Mountain Cranberry, Arando, Dingleberry, Highbush Cranberry
Southern mountain cranberry is a deciduous shrub native to high elevations of the Southern and Central Appalachians, grown for its edible scarlet berries. It is a wild, rare species, so it is seldom cultivated and needs cool, moist, acidic conditions with some shade.
Vaccinium erythrocarpum, commonly known as southern mountain cranberry or bearberry, more rarely as mountain blueberry or dingleberry, is a deciduous flowering shrub native to the Southeastern United States.
This species is found in the Southern and Central Appalachians at high elevations, often at prominences within the landscape (especially at the southern end of their range). They can be found in the states of North Carolina, Virginia. and West Virginia. They can be found more rarely listed in Kentucky and Georgia.
The berries are edible. The rarity of the plants and the small quantity of fruits they produce restrict commercial production.
Lowbush blueberry · Farkleberry · Northern blueberry · Sea bilberry · New Jersey blueberry · Dwarf bilberry · Highbush blueberry · Creeping blueberry · Azorean Bilberry · Darrow's blueberry · Elliott's blueberry · Andean blueberry
Text excerpted from the Wikipedia article Vaccinium erythrocarpum by its contributors, under CC BY-SA 4.0; the excerpts and the care summary drawn from them are shared under the same licence.
The care summary was written by AI (Claude, Anthropic) from the sources on this page, with general growing knowledge where they are silent. Check before relying on it.
Life form, climate and native range: World Checklist of Vascular Plants, Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (CC BY 3.0), reformatted; see Plants of the World Online.
