bearberry

Synonyms:

Rhamnus purshianus, bearwood, cascara buckthorn, chittamwood, chittimwood

Type of:

buckthorn

a shrub or shrubby tree of the genus Rhamnus; fruits are source of yellow dyes or pigments

Synonyms:

Ilex decidua, possum haw, winterberry

Type of:

holly

any tree or shrub of the genus Ilex having red berries and shiny evergreen leaves with prickly edges

Types:

Arctostaphylos uva-ursi, bear's grape, common bearberry, creashak, hog cranberry, mealberry, mountain box, red bearberry, sand berry, sandberry, wild cranberry

evergreen mat-forming shrub of North America and northern Eurasia having small white flowers and red berries; leaves turn red in autumn

Arctostaphylos alpina, alpine bearberry, black bearberry

deciduous creeping shrub bright red in autumn having black or blue-black berries; alpine and circumpolar

Type of:

bush, shrub

a low woody perennial plant usually having several major stems