General:
Low, mat-forming shrub; stems decumbent or ascending, 5-25 cm long, rounded or slightly angled, minutely hairy.

Leaves:
Alternate, evergreen, leathery, narrowly elliptic to egg-shaped, 6-15 mm long, 2-9 mm wide, rounded to shallowly notched at tips, shiny green above, pale with brownish or black stalked glands beneath, margins entire to slightly toothed, somewhat rolled under; nearly unstalked.

Flowers:
One to several in short, terminal clusters; flower stalks with 1-2 bracts below the flower, glandular; corollas pinkish, bell-shaped, 4-6 mm long, 4-lobed to the middle; calyces deeply lobed, the lobes persistent in fruit; filaments hairy; anthers awnless, prolonged into long tubes.

Fruits:
Berries, globe-shaped, 6-10 mm wide, bright red; edible but rather acid.

Source:  The Illustrated Flora of British Columbia

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Illustration Source:  The Illustrated Flora of British Columbia

Synonyms and Alternate Names:
Vaccinium vitis-idaea var. minus Lodd.
Vaccinium vitis-idaea var. punctatum Moench